9052. Do you buy hosiery?-A little sometimes.
9053. Do you pay for it in the way that is usual in the country, by goods across the counter?-Yes, mostly.
9054. Do you give out wool to knit?-I sometimes give out worsted, and I pay for the knitting of it in the same way.
9055. Have you a knitters' book, or are the knitters' accounts kept in the ledger?-I keep a book for women's accounts.
9056. Is that book used entirely for sales of hosiery?-No. We don't do a great deal in hosiery. We buy few haps and small shawls, but the principal thing we buy is worsted. I buy a good deal in the course year from the spinners, and I sell it chiefly in Lerwick to the merchants there. I sell most of it to Mr. Robert Linklater. I invoice it to the merchants, and I take a note of the quantities when I send them away.
9057. When did you send away the last?-I suppose it would be about a couple of months ago.
9058. At what price did you send it out?-We get 3d. per cut for very fine, and 21/2d. and 2d. for the coarsest.
9059. You sell to the merchants as a sort of wholesale dealer?- Yes.
9060. The price per pound of that worsted varies according to the quality?-Yes.
9061. It does not correspond with the price per cut in any way?- No. Of course the finer the worsted the finer the thread is.