9809. Do you keep an account with any of the shops?-No.
9810. Do you always get your provisions from Spence & Co.'s at Haroldswick?-Yes.
9811. What do you pay for tea?-10d. and 1s. per quarter.
9812. What do you pay for your meal?-1s. 4d. a peck. It is 1s. 5d. just now.
9813. What do you pay for a half-loaf?-5d.
9814. Is that brought from Lerwick?-Yes.
9815. What do you pay for unbleached cotton?-10d.; but I have not bought it for some time back. There is some of it at 6d., but not of such a good quality. The cotton at 6d. is half-bleached. I bought that half-bleached cotton in summer, and I am sure I paid 6d. a yard for it.
Baltasound, Unst, January 19, 1872, JOHN LAURENSON, examined.
9816. You are a fisherman at Burrafirth?-I am.
9817. You hold a bit of land there?-Yes, from Mr. Edmonstone of Buness.