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not think they should do that, and for revenue Hon. 

 purposes you could make a law that a man should KcSSu 

 trade by himself, and if he wants assistants, he 

 should take out another licence for each. That Al 

 would be for revenue purposes. You object to a 

 man doing a large trade on a 5 licence. I think 

 it ought to be stopped, and Government should 

 get some more money out of it. 



808. Mr. BellinganJ] If an agent gets feathers 

 from a farmer to sell, should he have a licence V 

 Everyone who trades in feathers must have a 

 licence. 



309. You would leave the registration in the 

 hands of a Field -cornet ? Yes, it was never my 

 intention that a man should go to a Magistrate. 

 My intention was that a Field- cornet or Police 

 Officer would sit in every ward for a week, and 

 give the farmers certificates. Now I would sug- 

 gest that a Field -cornet should give such certifi- 



*cate at any time during the year. 



310. Will the Field-cornets be paid extra for this 

 work ? Is it much trouble ? There would be a 

 book, and all he would have to do would be to 

 enter the man's name in that book. 



311. But a Field- cornet "gets no salary, and he 

 may be called from his private work to attend to 

 this registration ? Yes, there is something in 

 that, but we want to make it as. easy as possible 

 for the honest man and the white man. 



312. Mr. L .1. van Zyl.~\ With regard to the 

 selling of wild ostrich feathers in my part of the 

 country a good many wild birds are destroyed for 

 the feathers, and I should be glad if you could see 

 a way to make provision in the Bill that anyone 

 who sells wild ostrich feathers should show that 

 the birds were shot on his own ground ? That 

 is difficult because you might then prevent 

 a man going out of the Colony where there 

 are no farms at all to shoot wild ostriches, and sell 

 their feathers. If all wild ostriches were on farms 

 it would be all right, but you get lots in the 



