111. What did you require at that time?-I got a little tea, and the rest in cotton. 112. Did you want the tea?-Yes. 113. Have you sometimes asked the merchants for goods which they would not give you?-No. 114. When you go to a merchant to sell a shawl, can you get any kind of goods you want?-I don't sell any shawls, because I don't have any of my own. I have not had any of my own for a long time. 115. But when you go to sell any of the goods you have knitted, can you get anything you want?-I cannot get money, but I can get anything else, except worsted. They won't give it. 116. Will they not give you worsted for your knitted goods?-No. They won't give it for the hosiery. They want money for the worsted. 117. Do they give any reason for that?-I don't know. They say it is a money article. 118. Does that mean ready-money?-Yes. 119. It is cotton or tea you generally get?-Yes; or any other small thing except money. We can get anything except it. 120. You work at other things; so that I suppose you have money from your wages in the fish-curing establishment for the purpose of paying your rent, and things that you must pay in money?-Yes. 121. You get your wages there in money?-Yes; I get money for that. 122. You work for Mr. Leask?-Yes. 123. He does not keep a store of any kind?-No; he has no store, but he keeps a shop. 124. Have you to take goods for your wages there?-No; I can either get money or goods, whichever I want. 125. But what do you do in point of fact? Do you take money or do you take goods from Mr. Leask's shop?-I take money. 126. Always?-Not always. I take other things too, because they keep everything there that is required. 127. You have no complaint to make about that?-No. 128. You are quite content to go to Mr. Leask's shop for what you want?-Yes. 129. When you buy things there, you pay your money across the counter?-Yes. 130. You have got that money from the pay-clerk previously?- Yes. 131. Where is that money paid to you?-In the shop. 132. In which shop?-In Mr. Leask's shop. We get it in the office, and we pay it in the shop. He has two shops there. 133. Is the office at the Docks?-No; it is in the town. 134. Are you expected to go to Mr. Leask's shop when you get your wages?-No; we can go anywhere we like. 135. How long in the year do you work for Mr. Leask?- Sometimes, when the vessels get fish early, we begin soon. We begin in the spring. 136. Will you work there for six months?-Some [Page 4] times longer. We sometimes begin in spring, and work until after Martinmas. 137. During all that time you won't do much knitting?-No. 138. But you get your wages every week?-Yes. 139. How much do you get?-1s. a day. 140. And that is paid weekly on Saturdays at the office?-Yes. 141. Do you take that money home?-Yes; what I don't pay away. 142. You perhaps want something on the Saturday, and go into the shop for it?-Yes; what I want I go into the shop for.