Day 091 - 17 Feb 95 - Page 62


     
     1        think it would be make the stockman's job easier for the
     2        checking of all that stuff, 25,000 birds, being caring
     3        about their welfare if there were two people rather than
     4        one doing that job?
     5        A.  I do not think it makes any difference whatsoever.
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have mentioned three quarters of an hour,
     8        but I have assumed -- tell me if I am wrong -- that the
     9        stockmen takes as long as he thinks he needs, or is that
    10        wrong, is there a constraint on his time?
    11        A.  Absolutely, three quarters of an hour would be a
    12        routine visit, a routine walk, through the shed where there
    13        was nothing wrong.  If there was something which he was
    14        concerned about and he had to deal with, he might be there
    15        for three or four hours.
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  How often is he there for three or four hours?
    18        A.  I cannot answer that.  It depends on whether anything
    19        goes wrong.
    20
    21   MS. STEEL:   Just to clarify on each of those checks, would all
    22        of those water feeders, the bell drinkers, the fans, the
    23        feed containers, they would be checked on each and every
    24        single ----
    25        A.  It is obvious if there is anything wrong with any of
    26        this equipment.  So, the checks, sometimes is subconscious
    27        rather than conscious because it becomes obvious if there
    28        is anything wrong with any piece of equipment.
    29
    30   Q.   So these checks are basically looking for the obvious?
    31        A.  Yes.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Shall we pause there?
    34
    35   MS. STEEL:  Yes.
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you, Dr. Pattison.
    38
    39                       (The witness withdrew)
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Unless there is anything we must deal with
    42        now?
    43
    44   MR. RAMPTON:  I just wondered what your Lordship wanted to do
    45        with Monday, it being Friday.  It is partly a question of
    46        what one takes back with one.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I was going to sit in my room and work on
    49        this case.
    50 
    51   MR. RAMPTON:  That is what I was going to do.  It is a question 
    52        of what one takes back from court.  I do not know whether 
    53        your Lordship wants to continue, we could deal with some
    54        interlocutory things.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I have a backlog of those already which
    57        I must get on with, unless there is something which is
    58        particularly burning away.  Since Dr. Pattison is not
    59        available on Monday, I was not going to sit on Monday.  You
    60        were not pressing me to do so?

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