2765. That is to say, you have not always the kind of wool that you want?-No; we cannot get a sufficient quantity of fine Shetland wool; but I don't give out any wool for making coarse goods, only the lace goods. I don't give out wool for such things as men's underclothing and stockings. 2766. Have you anything else to say?-No; there is nothing more that occurs to me to say. Lerwick, January 4, 1872, JAMES TULLOCH, examined. 2767. You are a merchant in Lerwick?-I am. 2768. You keep a drapery store?-Yes. 2769. Do you sell any other goods?-The only grocery goods I sell are tea and soap. 2770. Do you purchase hosiery?-My chief business in it is purchasing it. I have very few knitters employed. 2771. Do you pay them in money or goods?-It is the understanding that they are to be paid in goods; but I often give a few shillings when they ask for it, [Page 61] both when purchasing and when I employ the women to knit. I have only one or two persons knitting for me in Lerwick just now, and not more than three or four that I remember of in the country. My business in that way is mostly done by purchase. 2772. Do your knitters have pass-books?-No; the account with them is just kept in the day-book and ledger. 2773. You have an account in the ledger with each knitter?-Yes. 2774. Does it show what proportion of the payment to the knitter is made in cash?-No. In some cases the price is marked in and sometimes not. 2775. Then how do you know what you have paid if it is not marked?-The transaction is very often carried through without reference to the book at all, particularly in the case of a purchase. 2776. But I am speaking only of those knitters whom you employ. I am quite aware that in sales it generally a transaction that is finished at the time; but in the case of your knitters, how do you know how much is paid to them in cash?-I had many more knitters at one time than I have now, but I have given them up. With regard to the one who is knitting for me just now, I don't remember whether she ever asked me for any cash upon her knitting or not. 2777. Have you only one woman knitting for you just now?-I have only two, and one of them has had no knitting for some time. I don't remember of either of these two having ever asked me for money. 2778. They have an account in your books, and they take goods, and their account is balanced now and again?-Yes. 2779. Do you sell worsted?-No. For the last few months I have had a little of the Pyrenees wool to sell, and I have sold it. 2780. Is that extensively purchased by people who wish to knit?- There seems to be a good deal of it wrought into small articles at present. I have never wrought up any of it. 2781. Is it an article that is sold for cash?-Yes; but sometimes we give it out upon the work that is brought in. 2782. There is no difficulty made about giving it out upon a transaction of that sort?-No; not that kind of it. I never object to give Scotch wool.