2707. Where there is a sum like 3s. 4d. or 7s. 101/2d. due, there must sometimes be a little difficulty in making it square exactly, is there not?-No difficulty whatever. 2708. Is there not a difficulty in getting the exact quantity of goods to answer to that balance?-No, I don't see any difficulty. 2709. The woman may want so many yards of cotton, or a pair of gloves, or a packet of tea, and she may bring up the sum to 7s. 6d. or 7s. 3d., there being 7s. 101/2d. due to her; in such a case, how do you square off the balance?-She always takes the full value of it when she comes to settle. 2710. If the goods she gets come to something more than the balance due to her, does she pay the rest in money?-If it comes to anything more, she either pays it in money, or she may have another piece of goods to sell. 2711. Suppose 7s. 101/2d. is the sum at her credit, and she takes various articles amounting to 7s. 7d., leaving 31/2d. over, might she not have some difficulty in selecting an article to cover that?-No, I don't find any difficulty in that at all. 2712. I suppose you or your shopman can suggest something very easily?-Well, there is always something required. 2713. Have you often been importuned by these women to pay them in money, because they could not supply themselves with the means of living unless they were paid for their work partly in cash?-No; there are many cases where cash is given. 2714. These are cases where the people were in circumstances to require it?-Yes. 2715. And I suppose you are acquainted with these cases?-Yes; I generally know the people who are actually requiring money when they ask for it. 2716. Do people often ask for money in that way?-Not often. 2717. Then there are few of them who are in circumstances to require money?-I should not say that. I think there are many of them who require money. 2718. Do you mean that many of them are in need of money payments for their knitting, in order to provide themselves with the necessaries of life?-In the town there are a good many who at particular seasons of the year have other ways of working outside as well as knitting. 2719. For these, do they get money payments?-Yes. 2720. Or they have friends with whom they live?-Yes; and in the country there are a great many who live with their parents. 2721. But there are some women who depend entirely upon their knitting for a living?-I believe there are. [Page 60] 2722. You don't know any of them yourself?-I could not mark out any one. 2723. But when you do meet with a woman of that description, and have dealings with her, cash payments must sometimes be made?-Yes; it little cash. 2724. If she takes her goods from you and only little cash, how do you suppose she supplements her means of living?-Just in the way I have stated, by working outside at the proper season of the year. 2725. Is that in the fish-curing business?-There is fish-curing, but there is other work outside besides that.