Scalloway, January 22, 1872, Mrs. ANN LEASK or INKSTER, examined.
11,671. You live in Scalloway?-I do.
11,672. Have you sometimes knitted hosiery goods for sale?-Yes; I have knitted some for Mr. Sinclair.
11,673. Have you been paid for them in money or in goods?- When I knitted goods for sale I was paid for them in money. I knitted some for Dr. Hamilton, Bressay, and I was paid money for them. He had got an order for them from the south.
11,674. But when you sold them to merchants, you were paid in goods?-Yes; I never asked them for any money, because I did not require it. I always took what I required in cottons, cloth, and so on. Besides, I knew it was not the practice to give money.
11,675. Did you sell your own knitting?-No. I knitted for Mr. Sinclair, except what I got orders to knit from the south.
11,676. Have you an aunt who knits also?-Yes.
11,677. Does she sometimes sell shawls made with her own worsted?-She did formerly, but she does not do so now.
11,678. Do you think the merchants make any profit by the shawls they buy?-I cannot say; perhaps they do.
11,679. They say they sell them to the merchants in the south at exactly the same rate as they buy them here. Do you know of any case where a merchant has sold a shawl at a great profit?-No.