down of evidence is concerned, must, by the terms of the Act, be held in public. Lerwick, January 1, 1872. CATHERINE WINWICK, examined 1. You live in Lerwick?-Yes. 2. You are in the habit of knitting for Mr. Linklater?-Yes. 3. For any one else?-No. 4. Do you supply your own wool?-No. 5. Where do you get it?-I knit Mr. Linklater's own worsted. 6. Do you get a supply of it at his shop?-Yes. [Page 2] 7. Do you pay for it when you get it?-No; he pays me for the knitting. 8. Are you paid in money?-Some in money and some in goods. 9. What is your system of dealing? When you go with anything you have knitted to Mr. Linklater's shop, do you put a price upon it?-No; he gives what he thinks right. 10. He puts the price upon it?-Yes. 11. Does he pay you that price usually in money?-Part in money and part in goods. He does not pay all in money. 12. Do you keep a pass-book with him?-No. 13. Do you get all the money you want?-I always get what money I ask for; but I never ask for all in money. I have asked for a few shillings in money, and I have always got it. 14. Why did you not ask for the whole in money?-Because he was not in the habit of giving all money for his knitting. 15. Do you mean that you knew if you had asked for it you would not have got it?-I don't think I would have got it all in money; I never asked him for it all, but I always got what I asked for. If I asked him for a few shillings of money, he always gave it to me. 16. Is a settlement always made when you bring your work back?-Sometimes it is, and sometimes not perhaps sometimes I have something in his hands to get, and perhaps sometimes I am due him a little. 17. Due him for what?-For anything. Perhaps he might give me something sometimes when I did not have it to get, if I asked him for it. 18. Did you ever wish to buy your goods at any other place?-No; I could not buy my goods at any other place. 19. Were you always content with what you got?-Yes; I was always content. 20. Then if you wanted money, it would be for some other purpose, such as paying rent?-Yes. 21. Or for provisions?-Yes. 22. And you always got what you wanted for these purposes?- Yes. When I asked for a few shillings of money for knitting, I always got it. 23. Do you live by yourself?-Yes. 24. And not in family with any others?-No. 25. Do you make all your living by knitting?-Yes. 26. You have no other means of getting money to pay your rent?- No. 27. You pay rent for a room?-Yes. 28. And you have always got enough from the employer to whom you sell your work to pay your room rent and your food?-Yes. It had to be enough, for I could not get anything else. 29. Do you mean by that, that you would have liked to have had more money to spend upon food?-Yes. 30. But you could only get goods?-Yes.