ALIEN REGISTRATION.
IF PRESIDENT WILSON CAME TO
NEW ZEALAND
{fter Press Association)
CHRISTCHURGH, last night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Edward Ralph Martin, a negro American citizen, was charged with failing to notify his change of address under the Registration of Aliens Act. Defendant hnd bepn previously charged, with failing to register, but this t^as withdrawn, as he had registered .when hi? attention was drawn^to the omission. , He explained that he was under ?he impression that registration was only required from enemy aliens.
'His counsel said a general misapprehension existed Among the public that men of Allied races were not required to register, and remarked that if President, Wilson came to thU country he would be m the same positron as Martin. The magistrate imposed a fine of 10s and''coß{>B. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 3
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ALIEN REGISTRATION.
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 3
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