42 MIXl'TES OF EVIDEXCE TAKEX BEFORE THE 



ELECT COMMITTEE 



v sST'son ^ l1 ^ * n ^ lcr P^ts we find-large tiumlfcrs of farmers 

 K.'C.. MJLA! 'ire in favour of licences being issued only to 

 An 8 1907 stablished business places they should be per- 

 mitted to do so ? If you issue licences for different 

 divisions, then you can easily make it permissible. 



290. Would you be in favour of the buyer giving 

 a receipt to the seller containing the weights and 

 description of the feathers ? Yes, and I think you 

 ought to have some provision that the farmer 

 must show it to the police if asked to do so. 



291. Do not you think it advisable, in order to 

 make that effective, that the seller must hand the 

 receipt to the police within a certain time ? That 

 interferes with the farmer's business, as he would 

 have to hunt after the police. If there is any sus- 

 picion, and the police want to see the receipt, the 

 seller would show it. I think you should say that 

 the seller must keep the duplicate receipt for three 

 or six months after he sold the feathers. 



292. Do you think there would be any objection 

 to have a clause in the Bill to compel owners to at 

 least once -a year collect all their birds and give 

 their neighbours notice of their intention to do so ? 

 There has been such a lot of trouble about that 

 that I had to withdraw Section 18. I think if a 

 man asked to be allowed to see the birds the next 

 time they are collected that he should have the 

 right to do so. but that is as far as you should go. 

 I must say that the farmers have been tremen- 

 dously against the whole of that provision, but 011 

 the other hand I was told that at Grahamstowii a 

 man asked his neighbour to let him know when 

 he was collecting his birds, and he replied in 

 fourteen days, but he collected them the next 

 morning, and plucked and re-marked three of that 

 man's birds. AVhat are you going to do with such 

 men V 



293. Would you be in favour of a compulsory 

 registration of' brands of ostriches as a check ? I 

 do not know enough about brands of ostriches, 

 but I have heard they are very difficult to dis- 

 tinguish. 



