6638 Do you generally employ women, or allow any women to gather kelp and burn it?-Yes; sometimes men do it also.
6639. But they are not at liberty to gather it for any one except yourself?-No; that is quite understood.
6640. Have you to pay a lordship to the landlord for the kelp?- Yes; 15s. per ton.
6641. You do something in the hosiery business also, and you have brought your women's book to show how that business is conducted?-Yes.
6642. Is the hosiery always paid in goods?-Not always.
6643. Have you any idea what amount is usually paid in cash?- There is very little cash paid. Our general practice is, not to pay cash for hosiery, but to give goods only.
6644. Is that because you consider you have a very small profit on the hosiery?-Yes.
6645. What percentage do you calculate you have upon it?-I am afraid my experience has been, that I have never had any profit upon it. I have a profit on the goods, but not on the hosiery.
6646. Do you sell your hosiery generally to firms in Edinburgh or Glasgow?-In London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, or any place where we can get it sold.
6647. But you sell it direct to retail houses in these places, and not through Lerwick merchants?-Yes.