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make it easy for a buyer to buy stolen feathers ? Mr. 

 Yes, but we should iiot increase the buyers' ex- ' man ; M.LJL 

 penses, because the farmer would feel it in the end, Jul 1<( 1907 

 because they will not pay so much for the feathers. 

 .269. The ostrich farmer should make his own 

 price ? Yes, but you do no.t al # ays get it. 



270. Chairman.'] Are you in favour of children , 

 being allowed to sell feathers without the consent 



of their guardians or the owners ? Certainly not. 



271. Are you in favour of " bywoners," although 

 owners of ostriches, not having the right to sell 

 feathers without the consent of the owner of the 

 farm ? The proprietor of the farm always knows 

 what the " bywoners " own. 



272. In the Eastern Province the camps are so 

 large, and there are ' ; bywoners " and poor whites 

 on farms who can dispose of feathers without the 

 owner of the farm knowing anything about it 

 You are, however, in favour of no buyer being able 

 to buy from a man who is not registered as an 

 owner of ostriches ? Yes. 



273. Mr. Belli ngan.~\ You say children should 

 not be allowed to sell feathers without the consent 

 of the owner of the ostriches up to what age 

 would you say? I should like to say I have a 

 number of people oil my farm. but. I will not 

 allow them to sell feathers. I sell the feathers for 

 them, and give them the money. They are quite 

 satisfied with the arrangement, because as a rule I 

 get more for the feathers than they would. Even 

 if they own birds I do not allow them to sell the 

 feathers themselves. Sometimes the children pick 

 up the feathers which fall 011 the ground during a 

 plucking and I buy these Ibr Id. or 3d., but 011 my 

 farm it is a rule that no servant may sell a feather. 

 I allow them to go into the kraal after a plucking 

 to pick up the loose feathers, but they have to bring 

 them to me ; so that the thieving is not there. It 

 is somewhere else. 



274. Chain nan.] Have you any other suggestions 

 to make ? No, but I do not know whether it is 



