885. Is that done at a particular season of the year?-Yes. 886. That is, when Messrs. Hay have not men at Burra to receive the large fish; or have they men there all the year round?-They have them all the year round.
887. Then why is it generally the smaller fish that you take at Scalloway?-I cannot give a particular statement why it is, except that the men get their account cleared off at Scalloway with these small fish. It is only haddocks that are taken there. The haddocks have never been taken in at their fish-curing station at Burra, so far as I know.
888. At what season of the year are these haddocks generally caught?-In winter.
889. Do they smoke the haddocks in Burra?-No; they never did that.
890. Their establishment there is only for curing the larger fish?- Yes.
891. Then, in order to get your haddocks smoked and cured, you must bring them to Scalloway, and deliver them at the store there?-Yes.
892. And that is the reason why you bring some of your fish to Scalloway?-It is.
893. Supposing you bring these fish there, is it still in your option to let them enter your general account, instead of getting goods for them at the time?-We can either take the value of them at the time in goods, or we can have them entered in our general account.
894. Have you ever asked, when bringing fish to Scalloway, to get the price of them in money?-Yes.
895. Have you asked for the whole price in money?-I don't remember that I ever asked to get the whole of it in that way.