11,310. Have you the entire management of their business here?- Yes.
11,311. You take delivery of the fish from the men, and enter the quantities received in the fishing book?-I settle with the men for the fish as I receive them, and I charge the amount against my employers.
11,312. You are now speaking of the winter fishing?-Yes.
11,313. In that fishing each transaction is separate and distinct?- Yes. The men are paid over the counter as they deliver the fish, for all that we purchase in Scalloway. They don't go into any account at all. Where the fish are delivered at other places, they are settled for at Lerwick.
11,314. Then with the regular summer fishing you have nothing to do?-No; Messrs. Hay have curers at the islands for that.
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11,315. They have factors at Burra and other places who receive the fish, and the settlement for them takes place at Lerwick?- Yes.
11,316. Your duties consist in managing the business the shop, and selling the goods there, and in purchasing fish or oil which the men voluntarily bring to you?-Yes.
11,317. You have nothing to do with the men who are engaged to fish in the home fishing?-Nothing.
11,318. When you take delivery of a quantity of fish from the men, is no part of that entered in your books?-If the men have taken up advances before, then these enter the books; and that is done occasionally.