7425. Do you do a good deal in knitting?-Not a great deal, but I do some.
7426. Where do you sell it?-At different shops; generally at Hillswick, and sometimes I sell it in Lerwick, and sometimes at Ollaberry.
7427. What makes you go to Lerwick and Ollaberry with your work?-I cannot say.
7428. Do you just go there when you want to go?-Yes.
7429. Do you get a better price there for your knitting than you do at Hillswick?-No; it is just about the same.
7430. How are you paid for it?-Generally in goods.
7431. Do you sometimes get a little money?-It is not much money that I get, but I get stamps when I ask them.
7432. What do you knit?-Princ.i.p.ally ladies' slips or spencers.
7433. What is the price of them?-From 1s. 6d. to 1s. 8d.: perhaps we may get as much as 2s. when they are good.
7434. That is the price of them in goods?-Yes.
7435. Did you ever sell any of them for all money?-No.
7436. Why?-I never asked it.
7437. Would you rather have had money?-Yes; sometimes.
7438. Then why did you not ask it?-Because I was generally needing the goods.
7439. But you said you would sometimes rather have had the money: why did you not ask it then? Was it because the practice is not to give money for hosiery?-I suppose it was.
7440. Did you not ask it because you would not get it?-I knew that if I had asked it I might have got a little.
7441. Would you prefer to get some money for your hosiery whenever you take it to sell?-Yes.
7442. Do you think you would get less money for it than you get in goods?-I don't know.
7443. Who do you sell it to in Lerwick?-Mr. Sinclair.
7444. Do you keep an account with him?-No.
7445. Do you keep an account at any of the shops?-Yes; I sometimes keep an account at Hillswick with Mr. Anderson.
7446. How often do you settle it?-Sometimes at the end of the year, and sometimes oftener.
7447. Is there anything entered in that account as having been sold by you except hosiery?-No.
7448. Are there no eggs?-No; we sell eggs, but they are never put into our account; they are just paid for at the time.
7449. Do you get money for them?-Yes; if it is asked.
7450. Do you often ask for money?-Not very often.
7451. Why do you not ask for it?-Because we are commonly taking tea.
7452. Do you want the tea?-Yes.
7453. How many eggs would you sell in a month in summer?
Three or four dozen?-We might.
7454. What do you get for the dozen?-6d.
7455. Do you always take the price of it in tea?-Not always, but generally.
7456. Do you ever sell them anywhere else except Hillswick?- No.
7457. Are the goods which you get in payment for your hosiery put on the other side of your account, in order to settle it?-Yes; when the hosiery is not paid up.
7458. Do you sometimes get your hosiery paid up at the time?- Yes, generally.
7459. But you said you had an account: is that account for goods supplied to your family?-No; it is sometimes for cotton.
7460. Is that for your own dress?-Yes.
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7461. Is your hosiery always paid for in dresses and clothing for yourself?-Generally.
7462. Do you pay your account altogether in hosiery?-Yes.
7463. You never pay money for what you want?-No.
7464. Do you deal for cotton and dresses anywhere else than at Hillswick?-No.
7465. Do you got these things as good and as cheap there as you could get them elsewhere?-I suppose I do.
7466. Have you never tried them elsewhere?-Yes; I have got them in Lerwick from Mr Sinclair.
7467. Were the goods you got there of the same quality, or were they better or worse than at Mr. Anderson's?-They were just about the same, I suppose.
Hillswick, Northmavine, January 12, 1872, Rev. JAMES R.
SUTHERLAND, examined.
7468. You are the minister of the parish of Northmaven?-I am.
7469. How long have you been so?-Since November 1848.
7470. You are, I presume, intimately acquainted with the condition of the people in your parish?-Perfectly so-as much as any minister can be.
7471. And you know the system which prevails, and which has been described in the evidence yesterday and to-day, with regard to the payment for fish in account with the fish-curer, and also with regard to hosiery?-Yes; I am acquainted with that generally.
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