9548. Who do you sell the yarn to?-All I have done in that is a mere trifle, as I have not been long in the business; but perhaps I take a parcel to Lerwick, and hawk it through the shops, and get goods in exchange which I want for my own business.
9549. Is it understood that you are to take the price out in goods?-Yes. Of course I may meet with a private individual who may buy a few good cuts of worsted from me for cash.
9550. Is the worsted you get generally of good quality?-It is generally thick worsted, worth 2d. or 3d. a cut.
9551. That is not the very finest Shetland worsted?-No. There is some of it as high as 6d. a cut.
9552. Do the merchants re-sell the worsted at the same price or do they charge a profit upon it?-I cannot say much about that; only I know that all that worsted and hosiery is a bad spec. to meddle with. If it lies any time it gets spoiled, and it is very difficult to get a market even for the best quality of it in the south.
Mid Yell, January 17, 1872, GILBERT GILBERTSON, examined.
9553. You are a fisherman and tenant at Harra, Mid Yell?-Yes.
9554. Is that on the Gossaburgh estate?-No, it is on Mr. Hay's own property.
9555. Are you free to fish for anybody you like?-I have been so in time past, and I am so now, so far as I know.
9556. Have you ever fished for any person except Hay & Co.?- Yes. I fished five years for Mr. Sandison at Cullivoe, two for Mr. Henderson, and one for Mr. Williamson at Ulsta.