DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1919, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

WAR LOAN CERTIFICATES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, May 5. A statment received by the Acting Postmaster-General shows that the total sales of war loaii certificates to March 31, 1918, amount to £4,017,031 2s od. A FINE POINT. A Wellington, May 5. In a prosecution under the Territorial | Defence Act in the Police Court, in which a youth was charged with failing to register as a senior cadet, the defence raised was that the lad was a satutory alien, his father having gone to U.S.A. in 1913 with his family, and been compelled, when he took up land there, to become a naturalised American, though he returned to New Zealand in 1914. He had never taken measures to revoke this naturalisation. He claimed that under the laws of England that when a father becomes naturalised in another country the children under age, by that act, become , citizens of that country. The magistrate reserved his decision. OUR TROOPS AT HOME. Dunedin, May 5. Sir James Allen to-day stated that on April 18 there were 281 New Zealand soldiers in France, probably left to look after equipment. New Zealanders in Britain on the same date numbered 19,155, the patients in hospital ,2012, and the nurses and Red Cross workers 216. Married men with wives and families in Britain on April 15 numbered about 1000. CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS* UNIFORMS. Dnnedin, May 5. The convalescent soldiers at Monticello Red Cross Miltary Home were visited to-day by Sir James Allen. They made strong representations regarding being ordered into uniform suits of blue, being ill fitting, unmilitary, and subject to comment by people in the streets. The Minister said, in effect, that he could not hold out a promise that the blue uniform wonld be done away with, but he would see that a decent uniform was j given as soon as possible. The objections | to the uniform had already disappeared 1 in Auckland, Rotoma, and other places. He asked the men to believe it would disappear in the South also when the public understood that it was a higher distinction even than khaki.