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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 179, 31 July 1907, Page 6

I With regard to the- movement by! the Civil bervants to form an Otao-o • ; branch of the New Zealand Civil Ser- i | vice Association, a ■prominent member, lof the service points ou <:~~ (says the Dunedin Star) that there a/p. about 500 Civil Servants in Otago, 'nd 5000 in New Zealand. This number, added to the number of interested.,elatfves and friends, means a considerable voting i power, and our informant thinks that j the day will come when the whole service (including the Post and Telegraph | Department, the public school teachers j and the police) will find it necessary to , coalesce into what will practically be one huge union in effect, although it may not be so;;i» name. A Kaikanui farmer has written to the Oamaru Mail advocating the discharge of dynamite from hill-tops in \ the North Otago district with the i object of artificially inducing ths rain ( which nature is denying to that parched-up district. \