NATIONAL REGISTER.
» FURTHER PR OVISIONS. [Per Pbess Association.] ' WELLINGTON, April 11. The staff of the Government Statistician has been largely increased for the purpose of completing the national register. Some 150,000 names are in the possession of the Department for the purwso of inquiry as to whether the persons therein set out have or have not sent in registration cards. Careful inquiry is being made through tii© police as to the correctness of names and whether the person is of military age. On receipt of this information the Department -wiM be ready to proseoute all not on the register. Cabinet has agreed that fourteen days' grace shall be allowed" to all unregistered men. The dates will be announced in due course, and prosecutions will follow. Cabinet will also issue a further proclamation requiring all persons who have arrived in the Dominion since the date of the National Register to forward registration cards. It is also necessary ror those who have arrived at military age since that date to forward card*. These prod a mations will be continuous,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11671, 11 April 1916, Page 6
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