PASSPORTS NECESSARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1915, Page 6

PASSPORTS NECESSARY.

AT ALL BRITISH PORTS. IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES MAKE NEW RULE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Nov. 27. The Government lias received from the Imperial authorities a cablegram 9tating that the provisions of clause 1 of the Aliens Restriction Amendment Order, 1915, are 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 Oreat 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 25, 191"), 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 his possession a passport issued to him not more than two years previously by or on behalf of the fiovernment of the country of which he is a subject or citizen, or some other document satisfactorily establishing his nationality and identity, to which passport or document there must be attached a photograph of the alien to whom it relates."

Mentioning this matter to a reporter on Friday, the Prime Minister said that as far as New Zealand was concerned, the Order meant 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 already, and now it would have to be extended to include women as well. The Imperial ..uthoritics evidently felt it necessary to exercise a close supervision over persons entering the United Kingdom, and the Now Zealand Government ivould do all that was possible to assist them.