6648. Do you employ women to knit for you, and give out wool to them?-No.
6649. Yours is exclusively a purchase business?-Yes.
6650. Do you make a bargain for the article, whatever it may be, on the understanding that the woman is to take goods for it?-Yes, that is the understanding; but still I have paid cash in a good many cases.
6651. If you want a very fine article for any particular purpose, do you then sometimes agree to pay in cash?-Yes; if they wanted cash for that, we would give it.
6652. Would you give a lower rate in cash than in goods?-Yes.
6653. What difference might there be?-I cannot tell.
6654. Will it be 2s. or 3s. in the pound?-I should think so.
6655. Are you often asked to give cash for hosiery?-No.
6656. Do the people who bring it generally want goods?-Yes, they want goods; but the practice may arise too from their knowing that the understanding is, that they only get goods for the hosiery.
6657. In the case of a woman not wanting the goods at the time, is the article she brings entered to her account, or how is it dealt with?-It is entered to her account.