15,167. Do you sell your fish to wholesale merchants?- Generally; I may say always.
15,168. Do you sell them in one lot at the end of the season?- Generally in one lot.
15,169. Do most of the men run accounts with you for supplies during the fishing season?-A few of them do.
15,170. Have you a store there for that purpose?-I have a station there, and during the summer season I keep some fishing materials at it, such as lines and hooks, and things of that sort. These are the only materials I am expected to supply them with.
15,171. Do you not supply them with meal and other stores?-It is expected that I will supply them with them too, if they ask for them; but the men generally in that neighbourhood are very well off, and they can get their supplies from other merchants, and in fact they do so.
15,172. Do many of them run accounts with you in Lerwick for supplies?-The only article I supply them with is meal, and it is principally the poorer men who get it from me; that is, men who are a little behind, and who would not get credit so readily as some of their neighbours.
15,173. Are these accounts for meal settled at the annual settlement in the usual way?-Yes.
15,174. Have you any other fishings, except at Spiggie?-I have a station at Levenwick also. I have not many boats there. I think there were about half a dozen boats fishing for me last season.
15,175. Have you a store there for supplying the fishermen?-I have, during the summer season, for supplying lines and hooks and other fishing materials. I have also a store there for the sale of general goods.
15,176. Is that a permanent store?-It has been permanent for the last twelve months.