11,738. Do you not get all your supplies from him?-No, not the whole of them. I think I get as much from Glasgow as from him; generally from two houses there.
11,739. What do you get from Glasgow?-Tea and sugar and coffee, and general groceries.
11,740. Do you also get the same articles from Harrison & Sons?-Yes.
11,741. Do you pay the same price to both?-They are nearly all about the same price, except that the goods from Glasgow may be about a halfpenny per pound less.
11,742. Is that after allowing for freight?-No; it is taking them at cost price.
11,743. Do you write for these things to Glasgow direct?-Yes, when I get them from there.
11,744. When do you order them from there?-My [Page 288] dealings in that way are not always at the one time. Sometimes in the spring I order them fortnightly, and sometimes monthly, and sometimes at longer intervals. They are sent to Lerwick in the steamboat, and brought across to Scalloway by carts, and I come here with a boat for them. I think it is about six weeks since I got any tea from Glasgow, and it is a month since I got some other stuff.
11,745. Did you come from Sandsound to Scalloway for the tea?- No; I took it out the north road Weisdale and all overland.
11,746. Did you come to Scalloway on purpose for that?-No; the north carts took it out.
11,747. Do you think the tea which you got in that way cost you more when it was delivered than the tea you got from Harrison & Sons?-No. I think that, taking it on the whole, and after paying the freight it would come to just about the same.