8859. Do the purchases of cattle pass through your current account with Hay & Co.?-Yes.
8860. Have you a private account of your own?-My account is in the ledger, but we have a current account besides that. That current account contains whatever comes from Lerwick, charged at the Lerwick retail prices, and then all my returns of money or anything are put to the current account.
Mid Yell, January 17, 1872, GEORGE GAUNSON, examined.
8861. You are a fisherman in Fetlar, and a tenant on Lord Zetland's property?-I am.
8862. Are you at liberty to fish for any one you please?-I don't know; we get as good a price from Messrs. Hay as we would get from any one else, and we fish for them.
8863. Is there any one else on the island who would buy your fish?-There is only one man on the east side, Jerome Brown, who takes a little besides Messrs. Hay's people.
8864. But you don't know whether you are at liberty to fish for Brown or not?-I don't know.
8865. Did you make any arrangement about fishing when you took your land?-I did not.
8866. How long have you held it?-I think I have been 28 or 30 years in the island.
8867. Have you fished every year during that period?-Sometimes I fished, and sometimes I was at sea.