ALIENS MUST REGISTER.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 December 1917, Page 2

ALIENS MUST REGISTER.

Up to noon to-day sixteen aliens had been registered at the Levin police station in accordance with the regulations. To-day is the last day and the penalty for failing to register is a fine of £50. Registrations will be acceptedi, however, for a few days next week. The Government Statistician desires that the following points in regard" to aliens should be made public. (1) Naturalisation taken out by an alien parent in New Zealand will cover liis wife if living with him and any children who may bo under age and also residing with him; therefore a man who came to New Zealand with' his- parents and whose father became naturalised in New Zealand while the son was living with him and before lie came of age is a British subject, and is not required to register under the Act. (2) A wife takes the nationality of her husband and an alien woman married to a British subject is not required to register. On the other hand a woman born a British subject who is married to an unnaturalised alien is an alien and is required to register. (3) Every 'person New Zealand born is a natural-born British subject and does not come within the scope of the Act. notwithstanding that his parents may have been aliens.