609. Where do you get your bread?-We buy all our meal, and bake it for ourselves.
610. You spoke about the meal being 4s. a boll cheaper at Lerwick than at Mr. Bruce's: do you know that because you have bought it there yourself?-No; but I have asked what the price of the meal was in Lerwick-sometimes when I was there, and sometimes from people that I could rely upon. Of course we did not know what the price of Mr. Bruce's meal was until we came to settle.
611. But you found out at settling time that Mr. Bruce had charged you 4s. more per boll than meal was selling for at the same time in Lerwick?-Yes.
612. Are you quite sure of that?-Yes.
613. Is the quality of meal from the store good?-Generally it is;
614. You have no fault to find with the quality?-I have no complaint against it or against the quality of any of the goods sold there; they are generally good.
615. What is the price of a boll of meal at Mr. Bruce's store just now?-I cannot say. There is not much meal bought at the store about this time. Most of us have small farms of our own from which we get meal.
616. Then it is generally in summer that you buy meal from Mr. Bruce's store?-Yes.
617. What was the price of meal during last summer?-I cannot say, because I had none from them last summer, except the fourth of a boll.
618. What was the price of that?-I won't know the price of it until settling time. I don't think any man dealing there knows the price of his meal until that time.