THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2600, 23 October 1915, Page 12

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

SCHEDULES BEING DISTRIBUTED. Personal schedules in connection with the National War Register for completion by male residents of the Dominion between the ages of 17 and GO years arc now being distributed by the Postal Department. Schedules will be'in the hands of overy postmaster before October 26, on whicli dato tlio talcing of the register commences. _ Tlio exhibition of the poster announcing the Governor's Proclamation will be simultaneous at every post office and at various other points on the morning of October 26, and tho distribution of schedules will then commence. In the towns schedules will bo delivered to every residence by letter-carriers, and called for on completion. At smaller places where lettercarriers are not employed schedules will be handed to eligible persons by, postmasters on demand. Provision has been made by the Department for supplying schedules to persons holding • privato mail-bags, and to those resident on Tural postal deliveries. Special steps are being taken in connection with the registration of crews of coastal and intercolonial vessels.Schedules are not required to be filled ill by full-blooded Maoris or half-caste Maoris living as Maoris, but half-casto Maoris living as Europeans are required to register. Tho organisation of tho Post Office is being used as far as possible to reach every eligible person in the Dominion, but the responsibility for obtaining a schedule rests upon the individual. Failure to return a completed schedule to the Government Statistician, Wellington, or to an officer of the Postal Department, by Novomber 9 will render eligible persons liable to a maximum penalty or £100 or sis months 1 imprisonment.