PASSPORTS NECESSARY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 30 November 1915, Page 3

PASSPORTS NECESSARY.

AT ALL BRITISH PORTS.

IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES MAKE NEW RULE.

The Government has received from the Imperial authorities a cablegram stating that the provisions of clause 1 of the Aliens Restriction Amendment Order, 1015. arc now applicable to all persons entering the United Kingdom at any port. The effect of this extension of the regulation is that no person, whatever his or her nationality or business, may enter Great Britain unless possessed of a passport. This document in the ease of New Zealand, must be issued by the Department of Internal Affairs.

The clause referred to in the cablegram reads as follows:

“After April 25th, 1915, an alien coming from or intending to proceed to any place out of the United Kingdom as a passenger shall not, without the special permission of a Secretary of State, land, or embark at, any port in the United Kingdom unless he has in bis possession a passport issued to him not more than years previously by or on behalf of the Government of the country of which he is a subject or citizen, or some other document satisfactorily establishing his nationality and identiay, to which passport or document there must be attached a photograph

of the alien to whom it relates.” Mentioning this matter to a New Zealand Times reporter yesterday, the Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. F. Massey) siad that a s far as New Zealand was concerned, the Order m*'

simply'an extension of the system already introduced in connection with men who wished to proceed abroad. The machinery for the issue of permits, or passports, bearing the photograph of the applicant, to all men leaving the Dominion had been provided for already, and now it would have to be extended to include women as well. The Imperial authorities evidently felt it necessary to exercise a

close supervision over persons entering the I i her! TUnsrden. end t l ' ■> Zealand Government, would do all that was possible to assist them.