6991. Is it a usual thing for the men here to get their balances in money?-No; they don't get them in money.
6992. How do they get them?-They get supplies, and perhaps they may get a little money.
6993. Given after settlement?-Yes.
6994. Have you a pass-book?-Yes [produces it].
6995. That book commences in 1870. Had you no pass-book before?-No.
6996. Would you not be better to be paid in cash for the whole of what was due to you?-Yes; but I have never got the cash.
6997. But could you not have got it in cash, instead of taking all these goods, if you had liked?-No. I have been a poor man now for the time that is past, and I have never had the money, and I could not get it.
6998. You required to get supplies and you could not pay for them in money?-Yes. I always got what wanted from this man; he did not keep anything back, but the money I did not have to get. I did not have money, and I could not get it.
6999. Did you begin to work as a beach boy?-Yes. I was two years at Hillyar fishing station first, and then at Ollaberry.
7000. Was that for Mr. Anderson?-No; it was for Mr. George Henry.