Brae, January 13, 1872, JAMES GARRIOCH, examined.
8762. You are shopkeeper to Messrs. Hay & Co. at their shop in the island of Fetlar?-I am.
8763. How long have you been there?-Three years past on 1st December. Before that I was a store-keeper with them in Lerwick.
8764. Was that establishment in Lerwick the one from which both Faroe fishers and home fishers got their supplies for the season, and their outfit for the fishing?-Yes; and Messrs. Hay's country shops were also supplied from that shop for the most part.
8765. I understand the supplies for the country shops are sent down to you with invoices of the prices at which you are to sell them?-That is done with some shops belonging to Messrs. Hay, but with others it is not. To some of them the goods are sent down at cost price, and the shopkeeper fixes what prices he thinks right. That is what is done at Fetlar.
8766. I see from the books you have produced, that on September 25 oatmeal was 5s. 3d.: is that per lispund?-That is for a quarter-boll.
8767. Do you not sell by the lispund?-Sometimes we do, just as the parties want it.
8768. A quarter-boll would be 3 lbs. more than a lispund?-Yes.
8769. And 5s. 3d. per quarter-boll would be for 35 lbs.?-Yes.
8770. Have you the invoice showing at what price that was invoiced to you from Lerwick?-I have not.