2783. But you do object to give the Shetland wool that is purchased for cash?-Yes; we have a profit on the Pyrenees wool. 2784. Why is it called Pyrenees wool?-I don't know. It is sometimes called Scotch wool too. 2785. Is it the practice in your shop to give workers lines for a balance that is due upon goods sold?-Yes. 2786. What is the form of these lines?-I have one or two of them here. (Produces lines.) It is in this form: 'I O U 1s. 3d. in goods. JAMES TULLOCH 3. 1. 72.' There is a private mark in the corner which is only known to myself, showing the amount; and there is also a private stamp on the corner, as a guarantee for the genuineness of the line. 2787. The other one which you produce is a blank form?-Yes. I keep some of them on hand, ready for filling up. 2788. Can your clerk issue them in your absence?-Yes; he knows the private mark too, and he puts it there. 2789. Do you keep a register of these notes?-No; they are just given out as they are required, and goods are given for them when they are brought in. Sometimes I have given goods for a note which the people said they had lost or torn; but it is only as a matter of convenience for them that they are given at all. 2790. You would rather give the goods to them at once?-Yes. Sometimes lines are given to them when we do not have a particular thing they want; and we also give them out sometimes when we are in a hurry. 2791. Have you ever been asked to give money in return for these lines instead of goods?-I cannot charge my memory just now with any case of that kind, but sometimes it may happen. The lines are only given out for goods purchased, and not for knitting; and several times I have given 5s., and 4s., and 3s., and 2s., and so on, in cash; but if they ask for much money on a shawl, the understanding then is that I shall get it at a little less. 2792. That is arranged at the time of the sale?-Yes. 2793. But suppose the sale is concluded, and one of these lines is given for the balance, do you then understand that the whole sum due is to be taken in goods?-Yes. The reason why I expect to get the shawl for a little less if large part of the price is wanted in money, is because I never consider that I realize above what I pay in goods for my hosiery, and very often there is a heavy discount off. I have heard some of the other evidence which seems to clash a little with that, but I can easily explain it. 2794. What can you explain?-The apparent discrepancy between the value received in goods, and what the articles realize in the market. The hosiery market is a very uneven thing.