15,777. They don't come to you wanting out-takes?-Never.
15,778. Do you find they get on quite comfortably under the present system?-Yes. What took us hours before to settle, we can settle now in the course of half an hour.
15,779. Don't you think the fishermen might manage to get on under the cash system if it were introduced in the same way that you have done with your workers in the curing establishment?- The fishermen are different thing. The fish have first to be caught before they are paid for; whereas, in the other case, the people are engaged for a weekly wage, which they are certain to get.
Lerwick, January 30, 1872, CHARLOTTE JOHNSTON, examined.
15,780. You live at Colafirth, near Ollaberry?-Yes.
15,781. How long have you lived there?-I was born at Colafirth, but I came to Lerwick when I was 25 years of age, and I was here for 17 years.
15,782. What did you do in Lerwick?-We kept a few boarders and lodgers.
15,783. What do you do now in Colafirth?-I have been employed scouring or dressing hosiery for the most part, and I generally had to go to one man with it for 10 years, except two months. I commenced on 1st. June 1861, and stopped on 8th April 1871.
15,784. Who did you dress hosiery for?-Chiefly for Mr. Morgan Laurenson, Lochend.
15,785. Do you also knit?-Yes.