We hope that the meeting of the Royal Society for
the Protec- tion of Birds on Tuesday did something to strengthen the hands of those who are working for a Plumage Bill. As Mr. H. J. Massingham told us in the last of his excellent articles on the subject, it is hoped that either the Bill in Colonel Yates name or the Bill being brought forward by Lord Aberdeen may be passed this Session. Mr. Hobhouse's pm-war Bill prohibiting the importation of the plumage of all wild birds passed through Committee in 1914 and was only dropped at the outbreak of war. In 1917, as Canon Rawnsley reminds us in a letter to the Time* of Tuesday, the Board of Trade prohibited importation, but the restrictions were relaxed in September, 1919. Prohibition laws exist in America, Australia, and India. London is the greatest feather market in the world.
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