Q . "Can you state the average prices of wheat at Quebec the last four or five years?"-- A . "I think 5 shillings or 6 shillings. Canadian currency; the latter rate is equal to 5 shillings sterling, which is 40 shillings a quarter; but I do not suppose an average of several years would be over 4 shillings, 2 pence, that would be 33 shillings, 4 pence. There are peculiar circumstances that attended the last three or four years."
Q . "Has it been higher the last three or four years than the three or four years previously? A . Considerably higher than the ten years previously."
Q . "Do you think 30 shillings a quarter would have been the average of the ten years preceding?"-- A . "I should think so, but I cannot now speak positively."
Q . "Are the committee to understand it to be your opin
