3123. Do you require as much as 11s. 6d. to cover what you lose on the job lots?-I think we do.
3124. Have you any books here which show an entry of a job lot of that kind?-I don't have them here.
3125. How does that appear in your books?-They are entered as so many dozen veils job.
3126. They are entered in that way in your day-book as sent south to your correspondent in Edinburgh?-Yes; there are a good many of the same kind of veils, which having to lie over the season get crushed, and are taken back and re-dressed, and sent south again.
3127. But losses of that kind occur in all trades, I suppose?-I suppose so.
3128. You said you would charge for a job lot about half-price?- Less than half-price.
3129. Can you calculate how many job lots there would be out of say ten dozen of these black veils?-I have often taken one-half of them out for job lots.
3130. Do you say that, as a rule, there would be five dozen job lots in ten dozen black veils?-Very often there are that number.
3131. Would that be an average?-I think average is scarcely so high, but very near it.
3132. Then, of all the black veils No. 5 sent to your correspondent in Edinburgh, nearly one-half will be job lots?-Yes; of the one kind of veils-that is-the finest kind. There are very few of the cheaper veils jobbed in the same way,