Day 074 - 16 Jan 95 - Page 31
1 A. These documents? They are for myself. It is for
2 references or it is a complimentary letter, and I am sure
3 everybody likes to keep if there is anything good about.
4
5 Q. So you have kept the ones that give you happy memories but
6 not the ones that are complaints?
7 A. No, complaints basically you deal with them right away
8 there and then. I would not keep a letter of complaint and
9 I put it in my folder. Basically, I would not do so. All
10 my (indecipherable) and letters of appreciations or
11 letters, they go in my folder.
12
13 Q. The second paragraph seems to indicate not just one or two
14 straws or small items but that they see it as a serious
15 problem; is that something that you remember?
16 A. You are suggesting that I said that we would sponsor
17 the environment/index.html">litter bins?
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19 Q. No, I am talking about the second paragraph of the letter.
20 A. OK. Right. As far as I am concerned, there was, apart
21 from these couple of personalities which I have mentioned,
22 nobody contacted me. And the reason again for the dinner
23 was that I have, people feel free to come and walk into
24 McDonald's and tell me what the problem was, rather than
25 they have to wait for the secretary or the chairman of any
26 Residents Association to make a contact.
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28 Q. The environment/index.html">litter bin that was placed on the corner of Kings Road
29 and Smith street within 30 minutes, where did that come
30 from?
31 A. That, initially, that was my own bin, a McDonald's own
32 bin, our own bin.
33
34 Q. Where from, though, inside the store or something?
35 A. Yes, we have a stock of spare bins in case a lid
36 disappears or something.
37
38 Q. You contacted the Council for permission to sponsor more
39 bins; was that because you recognised that there was environment/index.html">litter
40 on the street?
41 A. No, it was through negotiation with Linda Wells.
42 I said: "If you think that there is a problem", because
43 when you do a environment/index.html">litter patrol, the thing is when you have
44 finished the round, it takes 15 minutes, then there is a
45 break. In the meantime there is a possibility as soon as
46 you move from that spot that somebody drops environment/index.html">litter or
47 something. And because there was lack of bins, it was
48 mutually agreed that it is beneficial if we have the bins
49 (because there was a lack of bins on the Kings Road) to
50 sponsor the bins, they thought that it was a good idea and
51 I believed -----
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53 Q. So, at that time environment/index.html">litter was being dropped between the
54 patrols; it stayed there until, well, it stayed there until
55 the next patrol came round?
56 A. That is correct. It all depends on timing. But if you
57 have moved past one area, then you are not going to come
58 back to it after at least another 30 minutes or so.
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60 Q. No. 3, how frequent were the environment/index.html">litter patrols to start with
