9342. Do the men go there for settlement?-No, they settle at Greenbank; but my brother settles with them, and he brings the book over with him and takes it back with him when he goes to Mossbank again.
9343. What quantity of fish did you sell from Greenbank last year?-About 54 tons of dry fish.
9344. What number of boats had you engaged to produce that quantity?-We had 14 boats altogether. One boat had three men fishing in it, another had four, and the rest had six apiece.
9345. Then the only book you have at Greenbank the ledger containing the accounts for shop goods furnished to your men?- That is the only book we keep there.
9346. Is there a woman's book besides?-No; we don't keep a woman's book at Greenbank.
9347. Do you purchase kelp?-Yes, we do; and we enter it in the kelp-book by itself.
9348. Is not that a sort of woman's book?-No.
9349. Is it not women mostly whom you employ at that?-It is women mostly, indeed altogether, who are employed in making the kelp at Greenbank.
9350. What quantity of kelp did you sell last year?-I think only about nine tons.
9351. What price do you allow to women for kelp?-We have two prices for kelp: 4s. in goods, and 3s. 6d. in cash.