there was not much money for payments to be made to everybody, so she said for the time being, [name withheld] would be paid $300, [name withheld] $300, she and her husband $300 jointly, and [name withheld], wages at $8 per hour. [name withheld] agreed to that, she said.
She said she would work in the shop from 6.30 a.m. till about 7.30 or 8 p.m. She thought [name withheld] would go home at between 1.00 and 4 p.m. each day and [name withheld] hours were not much different, although they sometimes left earlier than one another. [name withheld] worked much the same hours as her, except that she went home in the morning and evening to attend to the children.
Her husband worked from 2.00 or 3.00 until 7.30 a.m., then went to the farm during the day.
She referred to the yellow book to speak about wages and how, in all, three lots of $300 were paid to [name withheld], [name withheld] and her and her husband together. [name withheld] was paid variously $356, $636 and $648 in successive weeks.
