DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1916, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. PROSECUTIONS TO ENSUE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. The staff of the Government Statistician has been largely increased for the purpose of completing the National P«egister. Some 15,000 names are in the possession of the Department for the purpose of inquiry whether the persons therein set out have or have not sent in registration cards.

Careful investigation is being,made through the police as to the correctness of the names and whethei the person is of military age. On receipt of the information the Department will be ready to prosecute all not oil the register. The Cabinet agreed that 14 days' grace shall be allowed to all unregistered men. The dates will be announced in due course, and prosecutions will follow. The Cabinet has also determined to issue a further proclamation requiring all persons who have arrived in the Dominion since the date of the national register to forward registration cards. It will also be necessary for those who have arrived at military age since that date to forward cards.

These proclamations will be continuous.

FREE TREATMENT FOR SIOK . SOLDIERS.

Wellington, Yesterday. In future every man who has been a soldier and discharged will, in the event of sickness supervening arising out of a wound which was supposed to have healed, or any other form of illness, be entitled, on application to the Health Department, to receive curative treatment in exactly the same way as if he were still a soldier. The matter will bo administered by the officers of the department throughout the Dominion. Applicants will be examined by the medical officer of the district who acts for the department, and must promise in writing to subject himself to discipline the same as if he were a soldier. The Minister of Health estimates that the department will be able to handle 2000 men when the rush takes place at 'the end of the war.