NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 June 1918, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

ENEMY ALIENS. FOR NATIONAL SERVICE. WELLINGTON, June 25 Special regulations rae being gazetted bringing within the scope of nat- • ional service a clause of the Finance Act of 1917 concerning enemy aliens and all other persons of enemy alien, descent. The regulations authorise the appointment of the Alien Commissioner, who is already acting in the case of Jugoslavs. Every enemy alien who fails to report himself to the Commissioner, and fails or: refuses to accept such national service as h<l may direct, commits an offence against the war regulations. • , Provision is made for. the employment of aliens on the co-operative system; of public works. It is also^mro;\fided that every .person engaged in the national service shall be paid at "a : *at© by the not exceeding the rate for the time" being curreilt in the.-locality, for similar work. ~_, YOUTHFUL STtNGAEEE. A BOY WITH A' \ ■ 'PESTERS A, SOCIETY LADY. AUCKLAND, June 25. A boy, under fifteen years of age, employed in a large city shop, appeared at the Police Court to-day charged with attempting to obtain money by unlawful means. He had pestered one of his employer's customers—a lady Well known in society—by ringing her up on the telephone, when he.proposed that she should meet him by appointment. Acting on advice, the lady agreed, choosing the Domain as the rendezvous. At the time appointed the lad found ;a detective waiting for him, and admitted he had a revolver (not loaded) in his possession and hoped to intimidate the lady into parting with some money. The Magistrate said the boy had evidently been influenced by feishy literature, and committed him W the Wereroa Training College.