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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1939, Page 8

Enemy aliens in New Zealand now require written permits to be absent from their registered place of abode for longer than 24 hours. This is the general effect of the amended alien control emergency regulations, issued with last night’s Gazette. The text reads: “Every alien who is or at any time has been a national of any State with which His Majesty is at war shall, before leaving his registered place of abode for the time being for any continuous period exceeding 24 hours, obtain from a registration officer in the police district in which he resides a written permit authorising him to be so absent.” Applicants shall supply such details of intended absence as may be required—Press Assn.

A request that soldiers be granted free railway -travel on the same basis as in the Great War will be made to the Minister for Defence (Mr. Jones) by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. The council of the chamber decided to do this last evening on the motion of Mr. A. E. Bartrum. Mr. Bartrum proposed first that the chamber urge the granting of tree train, tram, and bus travel for soldiers in uniform; but this was thought too wide a proposal. A suggestion that camp canteens should sell to soldiers at cost prices was also rejected, on the grounds that such procedure would be open to abuse and that under the present system profits from canteens went to a fund for soldiers.