He briefly worked at Wellington Public Hospital as a casualty officer and also as a doctor aboard the 'Port Pirie' ship.

In 1931, Hodge arrived in the United Kingdom and underwent postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh.

[4] Hodge ended his life by drowning on 9 October 1958, aged 54.

[1] Hodge is best known for his comedy The Wind and the Rain, which was performed 1,001 times, from 1933, at St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End, and six months in 1934 at the Ritz Theatre on New York's Broadway,[5] toured the world and was translated into nine languages.

Plays produced in London: The plays The Wind and the Rain, Grief Goes Over, Men in White, The Island, The Story of An African Farm and a novelised version of The Wind and the Rain, 1936.