Day 077 - 25 Jan 95 - Page 62
1 presumably, somebody puts it into sheets or whatever?
2 A. Yes. From the time that is the only risk that is
3 left. From the time the packing girl has put the columns
4 of burgers in the box, that box is still open while it
5 travels round to the check weigh scale. Then it is sealed
6 after it has been weighed. There is still just a thousand
7 to one chance of a foreign object dropping in at that
8 stage, so it goes through another metal dectector.
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10 Q. By this time the burgers have been formed?
11 A. They are formed and frozen.
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13 Q. When your people go and visit the abattoirs, do those
14 audits, we looked at the form not long ago, do they ring up
15 and announce they are coming?
16 A. No never, not unless they are going back to recheck
17 something. Then they will say: "We shall be back again
18 next week to make sure you have done it."
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20 Q. Is that a deliberate decision on your part?
21 A. Yes. We never announce audit visits.
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23 Q. Well then, Mr. Walker, I believe we can pass directly to
24 Brazil, 11 plus years ago, far as I am concerned. There is
25 just one other question, I am sorry. I do not know what
26 files you have there. Can you tell me what files you have
27 there?
28 A. I have got yellow volume 11. I have got pink volume
29 VIII. I have got pink volume IX and I have got yellow
30 volume IX.
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32 Q. I think then the only one you need now is yellow volume
33 11. Again, I ask you to turn to the first tab 5 in that
34 file yellow XI, please.
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36 MR. MORRIS: Are we on Mark Pattison's statement?
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. It is Mr. Walker's second statement and
39 the appendices, the ones you got last week.
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41 MR. RAMPTON: It is yellow XI.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He is pulling your tail about Roman
44 numerals.
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46 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, my belief, and I say this in the most
47 friendly way, is that Mr. Morris' refusal to master Roman
48 numerals is entirely wilful and does not spring from any
49 inability.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We had better stick to the actual Roman
52 numbers.
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54 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, XI. Right at the back, the next tab 5, there
55 are just a couple of documents there that I would like you
56 to help us about. I should preface it in this way. The
57 documents within this tab, documents in tabs 1 to 5,
58 I think came from you, did they not? You will find the
59 correspondence about the balance sheet beef, copies of some
60 invoices?
