Part 141 (1/2)

5347. How long have you fished for him?-For about fourteen or fifteen years.

5348. When you settle in November or December, have you generally a balance of cash to receive?-Sometimes I have and sometimes not.

5349. Does that depend upon the season?-Yes.

5350. When it has been a good season, you have generally something to receive?-Yes.

5351. How much did you get at last settlement in cash?-I think I got about 19 in money.

5352. What was the amount of your account for goods furnished at the shop?-I had more things in Mr. Adie's hands then than my summer's winnings; I had cattle in to sell.

5353. Had you sold cattle to Mr. Adie as well as your fish?-Yes.

I had sold a young stot and a cow; I think they came to about 8.

5354. Were they sold at a public auction?-Yes.

5355. And bought by Mr. Adie there?-Mr. Adie.

became good to pay me for them. I could not say exactly who was the purchaser.

5356. The price of these animals was included in the 19 you got in cash?-Yes; I paid my shop account, and then I got that money.

5357. Then, deducting the price you got for your cattle, there is 11 remaining as the price you got for your fish?-Yes; but I owned the boat myself, and I had the other men's hires to get in.

5358. Were these accounted for to you through Adie's books?- Yes. There were five of these hires to be paid; there were six of us in the boat altogether.

5359. What would be their share of the hire?-I think the hire of a boat is 50s.

5360. Then each of them would pay about 8s. 6d.?-Yes.

5361. So that would be 44s. off for boat-hire, leaving little less than 9 as the price of your fish, after deducting your shop account?-No; my share of the summer winning was more than that.

5362. But I am asking you what you got in cash at settlement?-I think it was about 19, or perhaps a little more.

5363. And 8 was taken off for the cow and about 44s. for the boat-hire?-The price of the cow and stot and my summer's earnings were all summed up together, and came to a certain amount; what I had got from Mr. Adie came to a certain amount too, and when I paid that off I had about 19 to get in clear money.

5364. But after taking the price of the cow and the value of the boat-hire off the 19, there would be something like 9 remaining: was that 9 due to you for anything besides your fish? Was anything due to you by Mr. Adie, except the price of the cow and the boat hire, and the price of your fish?-I don't remember anything else.

5365. Then 9 would be something like the price of your fish?-I don't remember.

5366. Have you a pa.s.s-book?-I have one but I have not brought it with me.

5367. How much was your shop account?-I think it was about 17.

5368. Then your fish would be worth about 26 altogether: was that the value of your take of fish last year?-No; my fish did not come to that. I think my sixth share came to about 18; but then, as I owned boat of my own, and had the expense of her to pay I was paid a little more than the others, so that I might have more than 18 to get.

5369. How do you square up your account at the shop and your account for fish at the end of the year?-At the end of the year I may have more things put into Mr. Adie's hands than my fis.h.i.+ng.

For instance last year I had that cow and stot, and perhaps some other things, and these and my fis.h.i.+ng are all put together to my credit. Then my out-takes and things I have been requiring from Mr. Adie are put too, and the amount they come to is stated to me.

5370. Is that read over to you, or have you got it [Page 133]