8650. Is it the full debt that is paid in these cases, or only a proportion of it, or do you make a compromise?-Sometimes we make a compromise.
8651. Was there any understanding when you took the lease of your premises at Voe, that no shop should be permitted on the Busta estate near you?-I cannot speak positively on that matter. I don't know the terms of the lease exactly. I think there was a stipulation in the last lease, with regard to the pasture ground, that no business should be carried on upon it.
8652. Do you mean no fish-curing business?-No shop. There was a talk at one time of having a [Page 211] public-house put up there; and I think it was with reference to that that the stipulation was put in. That was in the lease of the park or enclosed property.
8653. Has your firm a grocer's licence?-Yes.
8654. I understand there is no public-house in the neighbourhood?-No; we have a spirit licence.
8655. Have you a public-house licence as well?-Yes.
8656. That business is carried on, of course, in different premises from your other business?-No; they are carried on in the same premises.
8657. Is there not a different door to the place where you sell the spirits?-No; we are quite at liberty to sell spirits there, but not to consume them on the premises.
8658. Then you have no licence at all to consume on the premises?-No.
8659. And the licence you have is not a public house licence?- No.