6599. One of the books which you have produced here is a woman's book?-Yes.
6600. That has relation to hosiery and kelp?-Yes.
6601. You have not brought any books relating to the fishing business, but I suppose you will be ready to show them if you are asked?-Certainly.
6602. In what way do you engage your beach boys?-Some of them are engaged about December, but perhaps it is the spring before we get them all. We engage them for an annual fee,-that is to say, a fee for three months in summer, or for summer and harvest. The rates we pay them vary from about 45s. to £10 for time summer and harvest.
6603. Do those to whom you pay £10 have charge of the curing?- Yes; I have given the whole range.
6604. There are two classes of them-the beach-boys proper, and the men who are skilled at the work?-Yes; and the man who has charge of the curing.
6605. Are both those classes settled with at the end of the year?- Yes.
6606. Do the men employed in the curing get payment before the end of the year?-No.
6607. I believe at some establishments the men employed are paid by weekly wages?-I am not aware of that.
6608. Do you open an account with them in the same way as with the other people employed by you?-Yes.