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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14150, 27 August 1909, Page 6

Asked to supplement his remarks at Dunedin regarding the possibility of some of the Civil servants who had been retrenched being taken back into the service, the Hon. J. A. Millar told a Christchurch reporter that if conditions continued to improve at the rate they had recently done, and the growth of the country's trade was maintained, there might be room for some of the retrenched in the service. If additional hands were required, preference would be given to those who had been retrenched, and had, while in the service, satisfactorily performed their duties. He had no information as to the number of men who intended to take advantage of the Government's offer to place them on the land. Applications were now being received, and the ballot would take place early in October. A Shakespeare night forms the programme for to-night in connection with the winter pours© at. tho Leys Institute, Ponsonby, comprising a lecture on " Shakespeare's Debt to Konum Drama," try Professor H. S. Dettmaim, M.A., and songs from Shakespeare, by Mr. I). E. Farrow,