840. In that case, do you get a line from the manager at Burra stating that you have delivered so much fish?-No. 841. Then how do they know to allow you goods?-When we take the fish up to the store at Scalloway, we only get goods for their exact value. In the case I have mentioned I got goods up to the value of my fish within a shilling. 842. Did you not say you could also get goods at Scalloway although you delivered the fish at Burra?-Yes; that is on account of the fish which we give to the local factor. 843. And the goods you get in that case go to the general account for the whole year?-Yes. 844. Then those which you deliver at Scalloway are not put into the general account at all?-No. 845. That is to say, you are at liberty to deliver your fish elsewhere than to the factor at Burra?-Yes. 846. But the only place where you are at liberty to deliver them, if you do not deliver them to the factor in Burra, is to the store at Scalloway?-Yes. 847. And you take them there if you want a supply of goods?- Yes. 848. Is there any reason for preferring that way of dealing?-We have none. 849. But have you any reason for preferring to take the fish to Scalloway and getting the goods, rather than delivering them to the factor at Burra and having the goods entered in your general account?-We have then got the pleasure of seeing our fish paid for all at once. That is all the advantage we have about it, so far as I know. 850. Have you a chance of getting more money in hand if you take the fish to Scalloway?-Not one farthing more. I have got none this year. 851. But on the other system you may still get an advance of money if you ask for it?-Yes; I believe I might get some money if I wanted it. 852. Would you get it from the factor at Burra, or at Scalloway or Lerwick?-So far as I am aware, I would only get it at Lerwick. 853. Do you purchase in that way, from Messrs. Hay, all your provisions and clothing, and everything you want for the support of your families?-As a general thing over the islands, it is only from them we can get them. It is only from them we need ask them, because we have no power to sell the labour of our hands to any one else. 854. And you have no credit with any one else?-Some of us would have credit; but the system prevents us from getting credit, because we could not pay the parties from whom we got the goods. 855. But if these parties knew that you were getting money from Messrs. Hay for your fish, would it not be possible for you to get the money from Messrs. Hay, and with it to pay the other dealers?-That may be done no doubt on a very small scale, for anything I know. I believe it is done, to a certain extent, by persons who get a few pence or a few pounds from Messrs. Hay; but it is only a few of the men who are able to deal in that way. 856. You say in your letter that you don't know the prices you are to get for your fish until the end of the year: is that so?-Yes, it is so.