624 Kidd V. Royal Ai/ricnUnral Sonety of England. 
Q. When you land it where — what part of the mill ? — A. On the foreshore. 
Q. Then after that it comes upstairs into your chamher ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Are your duties limited to the foreshore and to the upstairs chamber ? — 
A. Yes. 
Q. You have nothing else to do with any other part of the mill ? — A. No. 
Q. Then upstairs in your chamber is kept the linseed that comes up. How 
often is it screened '? — A. Three times — it goes through three screens. 
Q. Can you give me the size of the meshes of the screens? — A. I cannot. 
Q. Eoughly ; what is the widest and what is the narrowest — can you tell 
me V — A. Well, I cannot. 
Q. You cannot tell me ? — A. No. 
Q. Then when the thing has gone through three screens, what becomes 
of the linseed '? — It goes into the bin to be crushed, to be made into cake. 
Q. I suppose all the linseed is of the same quality ? — A. No. 
Q. Oh, there are different qualities of linseed ? — A. Yes, there are. 
Q. Do you recollect the linseed coming in with the ' Labrador ' ? — A. No, I 
do not remember any ship — I have nothing to do with it at all. 
Q. Do you recollect the quantity of linseed that came in in November ? — 
A. No ; 1 cannot call back to that time. 
Q. I thought all the linseed was put together ? — A. No, it is not. 
Q. Then is there a division made of superior and inferior linseed ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Who makes that division ? — A. We have a great quantify of room in 
the chamber. 
Q. Who does it — you yourself? — A. Yes. 
Q. It is your duty to separate the good from the bad ? — A. If you will 
understand me, when I take in a good parcel of linseed, the foreman gives me 
orders to put it into such a place by itself, and I keep it there. By-and-by 
there will be a parcel come in that is not quite so good ; well then I put it 
into another place ; and by that means the parcels received are kept distinct 
by themselves. 
Q. Then when some other comes in not quite so good again, what do you 
do with that ? — A. We put it by itself. 
Q. And who is the foreman who gives orders and selects which of the lin- 
seeds you shall jnit into one place and which in another ? — A. Mr. John 
Stevenson. 
Q. That is the same man we had here yesterday ? — A. Yes, I supiwse it is. 
Q. I do not understand exactly — now is the best linseed used for any 
particular thing, because you said the linseed for the " ordinary " came down 
that one spout, and the linseed for the " pure " came down through the other 
.spout — is that so ? — A. Yes, but it is all one seed, but we mix those small 
seeds that we have. 
Q. What seed do you mix the small seeds with? — A. When it comes 
through the three screens there are small seeds and sand, and those things 
come out through the small screens. 
Q. What do j'ou do with those small seeds and sand ? — A. We put them 
into bags and take them down to the bottom floor, and sift all the sand out, 
and then we put the small seeds in proportion among the " Triangle " cake. 
Q. That is done downstairs ? — A. Yes, there cannot be any mixture with- 
out. 
Q. Where are the bags kept with the small seed in ? — A. They are kept 
in a small place to themselves, in a chamber by themselves. 
Q. Down stairs, a lot of bags put together with the small seeds in ? — .1. 
Yes. 
Q. I suppose anyone can go to them and take them out if he likes ? — A. 
Yes, but he cannot put them in the bin without my knowing ; he may take 
tlunn away if he likes. 
