A HUGE TASK

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4204, 30 October 1939, Page 8

A HUGE TASK

COMPILING THE NATIONAL REGISTER. London, Oct., sth. Sixty-five thousand enumerators have been employed, in compiling the Naltional Register of all persons resident in the United Kingdom. The information required from each person,’ is: name; sex; date of birth, marital condition; occupation; and whether' or not a member of any fighting or civil defence services. The identity card has two pages facing each other. At the top, of each page are spaces in which the enumerator enters (in duplicate) the name and identity number of the person to whom the 'card relates. The left-hand page contains the following instructions :•—■ (1) - This identity card must be carefully preserved. You may need it under conditions of national emergency for important purposes. You must not lose it or allow it to be stolen. If, nevertheless, it is stolen or completely lost, you must report the fact in person at any local National Registration Office. (2) You may have to show your identity card to persons who are authorised by law to ask you to produce it.

(3) You must not allow your identity card to pass into the hands of unauthorised persons or strangers. Every grown-up person should be responsible for the keeping of his or her identify card. The identity card of a child should be kept by the parent or guardian or person in charge of the child for the time being. (4) Anyone finding his card must hand it in at a police station or National Registration Office. On the right-hand page are spaces in which, at a later stage the full postal address and Signature of the

holder will be entered. But above these spaces is the printed warning, “Do nothing with this part until you are told.” Apart from the official erttry of the identity number and name,' nothing must be written there.