O\ OSTKICllFrfllKltS Till-: FT IfKl'KESSIOX BILL. 



a Board, and SIM of them want the licences to 



be increased it I'iees. Others arc strongly op- 



posed to any ftifcering with the licences at all, or 



with tlie nuiniJol' the buyers, especially gentle- 



men like M-jfembeiiheimer and others from 



Oudtshoorn, ail think the Bathurst people also. 



They say it wjd be a mistake to have a Board or 



increase the ] Je of the licence or to interfere in 



any way witlte feather-buyer, because the re- 



maining feaUJ-buyers will form a ring. They 



strongly urge fat nothing should be done at all 



and that thexfcould be as many feather-buyers 



as possible, fuJthat the way in which they should 



buy should klegulated. Then the next sugges- 



tion is. that tfey think the feather-buyer should 



give the sellef the feathers a duplicate of his 



entry in his blks showing the weight and price of 



the feathers llight,the description and so on. and 



the seller shold keep that duplicate. They think 



further that ilicc should be entitled to go to a 



tochganger. all examine his feathers. Suggestions 



have also beq made that this might be extended 



to Field-Corils and Justices of the Peace. Field 



Cornets I thuk might do, but Justices of the Peace 



are a body might leave out. I do not object 



to Field-Codets, but I do not want to put people 



to too muchjrouble, and the Justices of the Peace 



are a different class of men. Then with regard to 



the registraron of birds, a great number of people 



are against Bgistration of any kind whatever. I 



do not thinlthey all understand what was meant. 



I only wanfd to put registration in to get the 



owner of bijrls to have something in his posses- 



sion to shof a feather-buyer that he is an owner of 



birds, so thlt the feather-buyer should not bo able 



to buy fioii a coloured man or a bywoiier, or 



along the riid from anybody, and it should be made 



in my opiraon a crime for a feather buyer to buy 



feathers ipm a man who is not an ostrich owner. 



and it sblild rest on the feather buyer to show 



that thoAian he bought from is an owner of 



Hon. 



1907. 



