32 MINTTKS OF KVIDKXCK TAKKX 11KFOKK THE SKLECT COMMITTEE 



M ra i se( ^ ^i'htl from 5 to 10. If the licence is- 



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man,'Mj,?A. made too high, it might happen that only a certain 



Tui 19 iyo7 c l ass *' people would be able to take out licences, 

 ' and also there is the danger that farmers would 

 not get full value for their feathers. 



237. It has been suggested that the seller should 

 send the duplicate receipt he receives from the 

 buyer to the nearest police station within a 

 certain time after the sale. Would you be 

 in favour of that ? I do not know that 

 there would be much objection to that ; but 

 you know some farmers are rather backward 

 in their business, and I am afraid they might lose 

 their duplicate receipts if they keep them for any 

 time. 



238. But if they are to be of any use to the 

 police they should be sent at once ? That is so. 



239. Are you in favour of a man applying for a 

 licence to buy feathers being required to provide 

 sureties ? No, I do not think that would work 

 well. This is a free land, and every man should 

 have the right to do business, and if he is dishonest 

 in that business, he should be punished. 



240. Are you in favour of one licence holding- 

 good for the whole Colony, or only for the district 

 in which it is taken out ? For the whole Colony. 

 We have a large number of feather buyers in 

 Oudtshoorn, and they do not remain in that 

 district only, but go to Port Elizabeth, where they 

 buy feathers which they often bring to Oudtshoorn, 

 and there they are sold sometimes for a bigger 

 price. 



241. Say a buyer buys a lot of feathers at Oudts- 

 hoorn and it may be that he has been dishonest in ' 

 business, but he leaves the district the same night, 

 what check have the police at Port Elizabeth on 

 him, and how can they say whether he came 

 honestly or otherwise by the feathers ? Do not you. 

 think that before he leaves any district, he should 

 have his feathers examined by the Magistrate or 

 field cornets or the police, so as to have them 



