NATIONAL CALL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 3

NATIONAL CALL

REGISTRATION OF EVERY MAN AND WOMAN. MOBILISATION OF RESERVES. OTTAWA. A nation-wide plan for the registration of every man and woman in Canada above the age of 16 years, has been announced by the Hon. J. G. Gardiner. Minister of National War Services. National registration is a first step in carrying out the objects of the National Resources Mobilisation Act. A Chief Registrar has been appointed by order-in-council as supervisor, and four days will be set aside about the middle of August for registration purposes. A provincial organisation will be set up in each province with the Chief Justice of that province or a judge appointed by him as the head. Members of the House of Commons have named a registrar and a deputy registrar in the constituency they represent. These in turn will appoint two men in each subdivision of the riding to carry out details of the plan. This plan is patterned along the lines followed in taking the vote in a Dominion election, with the exception that registration will be compulsory, during the four days set aside by the Minister. Each subdivision will be divided in four areas, and the people in each area will register on a given day. An appeal to make registration a national effort was sent out by Mr Gardiner, and the services of voluntary workers and organisations solicited.