BIRDS OF PARADISE
PLUMES IN WOMAN'S HAT. Officials in attendance at the offices of the Victoria Racing Club at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day were requested by a woman visitor from overseas to take charge of bird of paradise plumes which adorned her hat, stating that she had been advised by a friend on the racecourse to remove the plumes as the wearing of them was banned under the Commonwealth law. As she valued them at more than £3O she placed- them for safe keeping in the secretary's office. The Deputy Collector of Customs, Mr. D. H. Swales, explained that night that the importation of bird of paradise feathers into the Commonwealth is prohibited, and it is illegal for any person to possess them. Visitors to the Commonwealth were occasionally found on arrival with feathers in their possession, and they were asked to leave them in the custody of the department until leaving the country. If the lady who owned the feathers noticed at the races called at the department she could leave the feathers in safe keeping until she left Australia. y
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1933, Page 7
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