LERWICK: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1872
<Present>-MR GUTHRIE.
<Mr. Guthrie>.-As I have been detained here longer than I expected, owing to the state of the weather, I have held this sitting to-day in order to examine some witnesses who were formerly suggested to me by gentlemen in Lerwick, and whom I was not able to call before closing the previous sittings, and also some others who I think may be useful in supplementing the evidence already taken.
Lerwick, February 5, 1872, Mrs. JOAN WINWICK or FORDYCE, examined.
16,038. Do you live in Chromate Lane, Lerwick?-Yes.
16,039. Is your husband alive?-Yes. He is a pensioner. He was a carpenter to trade, but he does nothing now.
16,040. Do you knit worsted work?-Yes, I knit, but for myself only. I knit with my own wool, and sell the goods.
16,041. Have you never knitted with merchants' wool?-No.
16,042. To whom do you generally sell your hosiery?-I always sold it to Mr. Robert Sinclair since he became a merchant. I always knit haps or coarse shawls.
16,043. What do you pay for the worsted which you use in knitting?-When I buy the worsted it is 2d. per hundred; but when I buy the wool and spin it myself, it comes to be a great deal dearer. We cannot get proper worsted to buy, and we have to manufacture it with our own hands.