3308. Are you a shopman to Mr. Sinclair?-Yes.
3309. You are not the bookkeeper?-No.
3310. Do you know the prices at which hosiery goods are bought across the counter?-Yes.
3311. Do you also know the prices at which these same goods are invoiced to the southern market?-Yes.
3312. Is the price at which they are bought and the price at which they are sold the same, or different, on the ordinary run of goods?-They are charged to the wholesale or the retail dealer in the south at the same price as we pay for them in goods at the counter.
3313. Is that the invariable practice?-Yes.
3314. The goods, I understand, are not all ticketed when bought?-Fine shawls are generally ticketed, but haps and other goods are judged of afterwards, when being looked out in order to be sent to the market in the south.
3315. In the case of fine shawls, is it within your own knowledge that the ticket put upon them at the time of the purchase bears generally the same price as has been paid for them in goods?- Yes. Mr Sinclair puts up these goods himself for the market, and the ticket is put on them at the time of the purchase, in order to bring to his remembrance, when he is putting them up for the market, the price he paid for them at the counter.
3316. In all these cases there is only one valuation of the shawl, and it is made to the person who brings it to you for sale?-Yes.
3317. The ticket is put on them, and the invoice price is the same as the price on the ticket?-Yes, the same.