12,947. Do you employ a number of boats' crews for fishing in summer?-Yes. I think I had about 20 altogether last year.
12,948. Are the men you employ chiefly tenants on the Simbister estate?-No; they are on the Sandlodge part of the Sumburgh estate.
12,949. Are they in any way restricted as to the person to whom they are to sell their fish?-No.
12,950. Do you also buy fish in winter from any men who choose to sell them to you?-Yes.
12,951. Have you bought any from tenants on the Quendale estate?-No, not from Quendale tenants.
12,952. Have you bought any fish in winter from the Sumburgh tenants in Dunrossness?-No.
12,953. Do you settle with your fishermen annually in the winter, in the same way as other merchants do?-Yes; once at year.
12,954. Have you a shop at which they run accounts?-Yes.
12,955. I suppose they generally incur an account in the course of the year, which runs away with part of their earnings?-Yes.
12,956. And you set the one against the other?-Yes.