221. Who do you work for?-For the last six years I have knitted for myself, but before that I used to knit for the merchants in general. I knitted for the late Mr. Laurenson, and Mr. G. Harrison, and Mr. Tulloch, and Mr. Linklater,-in short, for almost all the merchants. 222. But that was six years ago?-Yes. 223. When you knitted for the merchants, was the wool supplied to you by them?-Yes. 224. Did you pay for it when you got it out, or when you were paid for your work upon it?-I was just paid for my work. 225. How much would you be able to make in a week at that sort of work?-I could not exactly say how much. I was in delicate health; but in some weeks I might have earned 1s. 6d. a day, and in some weeks perhaps less. 226. Was that the only thing you were working at?-Yes. The only sort of knitting I had was veils and shawls. 227. But was knitting the only thing you were employed at that time?-That was the only thing I was ever employed at in my life. 228. Then, on an average, you earned from 5s. to 6s. a week?- Yes; or from 4s. to 5s. 229. How often were you paid?-Just when I asked for any sort of goods that were in the shop. 230. Would you go once a week or once a fortnight to the shop for payment?-Yes; perhaps I would. I just went as I was done with the work which they required. 231. Did you get a book?-No. I never kept a book. 232. How did you know how much was due to you?-I just depended on the truth of the gentlemen's statements when they added up my accounts. 233. They kept an account in a book?-Yes. 234. Was that the same with all the dealers?-Yes; all that I dealt with before the last six years. 235. Did these merchants supply you with all kinds of goods?- Only with soft goods, and tea and sugar. 236. What did you do for your provisions, such as meal and bread?-I had often to buy such things as I could get, and sell them again at half the price to anybody in the row who would take them from me. 237. Were these the goods you got from the merchants?-Yes. 238. Could you not get anything from them you wanted, except what you have mentioned?-Sometimes I would get a sixpence and sometimes a shilling, but just occasionally. 239. Was that given you as a favour?-Yes, and because they knew I really needed it. It was a mere favour. 240. Were you supporting your stepmother at that time?-No; not at that time. I had only myself to support. 241. But you had no other means of support than your knitting?- No other means at all. 242. Did you ask for money at that time?-Yes; I always asked for money, because I required it so much. 243. Was it generally on a Saturday that you were with?-I did not make any particular settlement; it was just any time that I went.