34 MIXITKS O.f KVIDKXCE TAKEN BEFOKE THE SELECT COMMITTEE' 



MT. it not be better if a feather buyer's licence remain - 



i<.' M.L?A. cd at 5. and was only available for the district in 



which it was taken out ? I do not know, business 



19 ' 1907 ' is / wonderful thing, and you cannot restrict it too 

 much. A buyer may get a telegram from a farmer 

 in another district stating that he has a parcel of 

 feathers for sale, how is he going to manage ? "We 

 say rather make the licence a little bit higher. We 

 have over 200 feather buyers in the Oudtshoorn 

 district alone, and if the licences are increased to 

 10 each that means an addition of 1.000 to the 

 revenue of the Colony, and the feather buyers have 

 no objection to the increase. 



249. Mr. H. C. van Zi/L~\ You said you thought 

 that it was a good thing that a feather buyer 

 should give a duplicate receipt to the seller 

 describing the feathers lie has bought. Do you 

 think the seller should in addition give the buyer 

 a copy of it ? I do not see the use of that. He 

 could see that the buyer describes the feathers 

 correctly in his register. 



250. Mr. Hurndall.} In the Oudtshoorn district 

 does every buyer take out a separate licence, or do 

 people nTthe town take out one licence and send 

 agents round to buy feathers 011 that licence ? 1 

 think if a man takes out a licence he should go 

 out himself. 



251. Have you heard that in Port Elizabeth firms 

 take out a licence and send several agents out to 

 buy 011 the one licence ? I have heard that ; but it 

 is a wrong thing to do. 



252. You are in favour of only one man being 

 allowed to buy on each licence ? Y^es. and being- 

 registered as the owner of that licence. 



253. You have probably heard that people in the 

 Eastern Province are heavy losers through ostrich 

 thefts ? Yes, I understand so. 



254. And that Farmers' Associations have been 

 asking for legislation to assist in putting a stop to 

 the thefts ? Yes. 



255. You say you are in favour of a man getting 



