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                    [0] => No summary is currently available
                )

            [id] => 959
            [idSort] => 959
            [name] => Index to alien registrations (1939-49 systems)
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                (
                    [custom5] => Cards, 126 x 203 mm
                )

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                    [priref] => Array
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                            [0] => 10425
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            [authenticityNote] => Some of the records in this series contain documents that pre- or post-date this series. These record described in the new predecessor or successor series documentations.
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                    [normalizedValue] => 1939-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                            [0] => exact
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                    [normalizedValue] => 1949-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                            [0] => exact
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            [history] => This alphabetical index contains cards referring to individuals who were registered as aliens under the Aliens Control Emergency Regulations 1939 and not re-registered into the new system set up under the Aliens Act 1948 (see series 960 and 961). When the new system came into being in 1949, the people shown in AL 3 had died, been naturalised, or left the country, or were otherwise no longer defined as aliens under the new Act. 



The index was created by the Police Department, which administered the registration system until 1957, when control passed to the Justice Department. The Aliens Amendment Act 1965 transferred the administration of aliens to the Department of Internal Affairs, from which this index was transferred to National Archives. 



The AL reference number in the top righthand corner of these cards is the alien registration number and file number. Files are held in series 489. Sometimes a later, multiple-number file number is given also: this is likely to be an Internal Affairs reference (see IA series 1). 



Cards in this index usually show, for each individual registered: surname, forename, AL reference, nationality, sex, conjugal status (and sometimes name of spouse), date of birth, place of birth, date of arrival in New Zealand, date of registration, classification (under the Aliens Emergency Regulations 1940), and address (including changes). On the back of the card are details of occupation and employer. If the person left the country, the date of departure and ship's name may also be given. Details of children may also be shown. Cross-reference cards document changes of name. 



When received at National Archives, the cards now in series 959 and 960 were together in a single index. The combined index thus contained 'dead cards' from the two registration systems, with a consequent duplication of AL references between 10,001 and 30,000. It was decided to extract the cards from the 1939-49 system and make them a separate series, and this was done in 1985 (see NA job file 85/22). During this process, a few cards were found to belong to both 959 and 960. In other instances, one person had a card for each of 959 and 960, these cards being stapled or clipped together. Cards which thus belong to both series have been photocopied (on acid-free cards); the original cards have been put in 960, the copies in 959. (A list of the cards thus affected is on NA file 85/22.) 



For some individuals there is no card, but instead there is the Police Commissioner's copy of the Certificate of Registration. A list of these is on NA file 85P/23. 



Accession and/or Storage records for this series cannot be found. It is possible that is was transferred at the same time that the series it controls was transferred, i.e. series 489.
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                                    [type] => YearEndHoldings
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1977-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                                            [0] => exact
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                            [name] => Wellington repository
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            [itemType] => Series
            [rdfType] => recordSet
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Alphabetical, by name of alien registered
            [seriesRestrictionReason] => 
No restrictions. However, the files to which these cards refer are restricted. See documentation for series 489.


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