6246. Then you are a successful man, and I daresay you have a large balance at your bank account?-I have too large a family to have a large balance there. I require a great deal of money for my family.
6247. Have you ever gone to the Faroe fishing?-I have only been a ling fisher.
Hillswick, Northmavine, January 11, 1872, HENRY WILLIAMSON, examined.
6248. What are you?-I am a fisherman at Stenness.
6249. Do you hold some land on Mrs. Cheyne's estate?-Stenness is the station where we fish; and the farms we hold under crop, and where we live, are near it, at Tangwick.
6250. Your land is on the Busta estate, and you pay your rent to Mr. Gifford?-Yes.
6251. Are you free to fish to anybody you like?-Yes.
6252. For whom do you generally fish?-I have fished for Mr. Anderson for twenty-three years back.
6253. Do you get your goods at Mr. Anderson's shop at Hillswick?-Yes, for the most part, or anywhere else I choose.
6254. Is there any other shop in the neighbourhood where you get goods?-Yes, occasionally. There is a shop at Ollaberry; and there is a store of Mr. Adie's at Stenness, kept by a factor during the fishing season.