10,424. Did you ever hear of lines being given?-I did hear about that, but I could not vouch for it being true.
10,425. What did you hear about it?-That some parties had got lines for part of their wages.
10,426. What were they to do with the lines?-I don't know.
10,427. What did you understand they were to do with them?-I understood the line was to be paid at the place where it was sent to.
10,428. Was that at the shop?-Yes.
10,429. And to be paid in goods?-I did not know that.
10,430. Did you not know whether there was any practice of that sort?-No, I did not know about it myself.
10,431. Have you heard that there was?-Yes; but it is a long time back.
10,432. I understood you had been employed there lately?-No.
10,433. Who is paymaster there now?-Mr. Gardner. I think the men are paid at his house.