Day 112 - 31 Mar 95 - Page 39


     
     1        temperatures with Jarretts.  There was usually a column of
     2        notes at the bottom of the form.
     3
     4   Q.   In this meeting you had with the Jarrett brothers I believe
     5        you said about carcass temperatures, that was one of the
     6        matters that you raised, yes?
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   Did you have that file with you, did you show it to them or
    10        anything like that?
    11        A.  Yes, I did.
    12
    13   Q.   This meeting you had with them, did you raise all of your
    14        other concerns?
    15        A.  Well, particularly this last meeting where we discussed
    16        and came to a decision about the carcass, particularly
    17        about the carcass temperatures.  We only discussed these
    18        issues that I considered very urgent, the carcass
    19        temperatures and the BSE certification.
    20
    21   Q.   Did you make minutes of these meetings?
    22        A.  The only minutes I made was of the first meeting.  It
    23        was a long three-hour meeting we had with the management
    24        where we referred to all the things that I thought, all the
    25        problem areas in the plant and then we made sort of general
    26        decisions that these would have to be rectified in the
    27        future.  They told me at this meeting that they were going
    28        to present me with an improvement plan for the plant in the
    29        near future.  Those issues were dropped subject to me
    30        receiving that plan that I received either one or two days
    31        before I was dismissed.  All the other subsequent -- this
    32        was the only meeting that I minuted since nobody else did
    33        it, and I was particularly requested by Bob Jarrett not to
    34        minute meetings because he -- well, his argument was that
    35        he did not want additional paper work.  The subsequent
    36        meetings I had with them were not minuted by anybody.
    37        I usually made references to them in my day book.
    38
    39   Q.   Where is the day book?
    40        A.  I cannot find it.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But you brought that away with you?
    43        A.  I brought that away with me.  There was -- how do you
    44        call it?  The hours that would be required to work at
    45        Jarretts, as you can see from my pay sheets, were very long
    46        day and I was not prepared to work full-time even though
    47        the Council requested that I would be present every day
    48        when another OVS who was being trained at the time would
    49        take over part-time work at the abattoir.  I was asked by
    50        the Council to be present at least five hours every day at 
    51        the plant because of my experience.  I established a day 
    52        book for it to be some time of communication medium between 
    53        me and the other OVS on the days where we did not meet, so
    54        that he would know what had happened at the plant while
    55        I was there.
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS:  Did you send any of these records to the Council
    58        yourself?
    59        A.  No, I did not.  The Council representative senior meat
    60        inspector, David White, came to the abattoir often at the

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