9352. Is that a lower price than on the mainland?-I am not aware that it is, but I cannot speak as to that.
9353. Then, of course, you have a fish-book?-It is kept at Mossbank.
9354. How do your factors mark down the fish at landing?-There is a book kept at Gloup, which is the station in summer, and the factor marks the fish there. Then, as soon as the season is over, the amount is added up and sent to Mossbank to be entered in the fish-book.
9355. It is merely the amount of fish that is added up in the book at Gloup?-Yes.
9356. And the balance is made in a separate book at Mossbank?- Yes; in a ledger by itself, which is kept there.
9357. In that book the total goods supplied at Greenbank are entered in a slump sum?-Yes. The fishermen keep their shop account in one part of our business premises, and their slump account, as it were, in another part.
9358. That is to say, that at Greenbank they check their shop account?-Yes.
9359. Do they come to check it generally themselves, or do they have pass-books?-Some of them get pass-books, and others do not.
9360. If they have no pass-book, how do they check it?-I suppose they check it from their own memory.
9361. Do they come for that purpose before settling time?-No; they generally come about settling time.