FAILURE TO REGISTER.
DEFAULTERS TO BE PROSESEC UTED. Asked on Wednesday by a Post I’eporter as fo what steps it was intended to take regarding those men who had failed to send in their National Registration cards, the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Adairs, staled that the Crown Law Office had been instructed to proceed with prosecutions in a considerable number of cases in various parts of New Zealand, and these will be gone on with in accordance with the National Registration Act, 1915. An invitation had been given to those who failed through ignorance or neglect to forward their registration card* within fhe, lime prescribed by proclamation to do so forthwith. If (hcv did this the prosecutions would not be proceeded with, but where the failure to send in the cards had been accompanied by evidence of flagrant determination not to carry out their responsibilities the prosecution would bo carried right through.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1556, 27 May 1916, Page 4
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155FAILURE TO REGISTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1556, 27 May 1916, Page 4
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