My garden and other verse

Trained bootmaker and cleric, Hulbert emigrated from Britain to New Zealand where he was works manager for the Wellington-based firm, W.J. Staples. In the 1890s, following hard upon the findings of the Royal Commission into Sweating, he was at the forefront of the working-class movement agitating for better pay and improved labour conditions. His rousing radical poetry was immediately adopted, set to music and became the war-cry for Labour at a time when industrial relations were being redefined and finally written into New Zealand law. This collection was commissioned by Hulbery and aptly produced by Wellington's foremost left- wing printer.