44 MINUTES Or EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE 



Hon. 3(M). At the present time the registers may only 



K:c Sa M P LA. be kept in the English and Dutch languages ? I 



AH '~i o- am no ^ sure - 



301. Would you be in favour of the register 



being kept in any language ? Xo, you must keep 

 the register in such a language as the people who 

 have to look at it can understand. 



302. Mr. de Villiers.] I understand you are in 

 favour of making licences available only for the 

 districts in which they are taken out y Yes, I 

 think so, because you would be able to have more 

 control over the buyer. 



303. The licence to be 5? I would not alter 

 the amount of the licence now. Except from the 

 point of view of the revenue, it does not matter, 

 because whether the licence is 5 or 10, if it is a 

 paying business, it will be taken out. 



304. With regard to wild ostrich feathers. I do 

 not quite understand you V Well, in some districts 

 a nian will say. " The feathers I sold are wild 

 ostrich feathers, and will not come under the Act." 

 Now I want him to get a certificate from the magis- 

 trate or field- cor net that they are wild ostrich 

 feathers. 



305. People go and shoot ostriches for the sake 

 of the feathers, and sell them as wild ostrich 

 feathers to general dealers in the village ? A 

 feather buyer will not be able to buy them unless 

 he has satisfied the magistrate that they are bond 

 fide wild ostrich feathers. 



306. But if a man shoots wild ostriches running 

 on somebody else's farm IIOAV would- you prevent 



that ? That has not been provided for in the Act. 

 But you could prosecute him for trespass. It has r 

 nothing to do with this Act. We are only protect- 

 ing the domesticated ostrich. 



307. Mr. Hwndall.'] With regard to the licences 

 in some districts, each buyer has his own licence, 

 and in other districts, say. Port Elizabeth, one man 

 takes out a licence and sends out any amount of 

 agents to buy feathers on that one licence ? I do 



