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     1        There is a long description about it but that is the idea.
     2
     3   Q.   No, no, I need not trouble you with that.  Thank you very
     4        much.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ms. Mead, if you look at G1 again, the
     7        abstract, as it were, of various rates, do you know whether
     8        the New Earnings Survey, April 1987, refers to the date of
     9        publication or to the figures, because my recollection is
    10        that they are looking back something like a year in the New
    11        Earnings Survey.  So if, for instance, I bought the current
    12        one in the middle of 1995, it would be the rates for the
    13        year up to April 1994, or something like that?
    14        A.  I think that is quite likely, yes.
    15
    16   Q.   So, do you know what the "April 1987" refers to; whether it
    17        refers to publication or the year in relation to which
    18        enquiries were made?
    19        A.  I am sure that that -- fairly sure that is the date of
    20        publication.  I think that is what we would have put on to
    21        the document in that way.  So, that would be the date it
    22        was published.
    23
    24   Q.   So they may be what people were earning in the year up to
    25        April 1986?
    26        A.  Quite possibly, yes.
    27
    28   Q.   It could be that, yes.
    29        A.  Yes, we would really take it at face value from the
    30        date that was the date of publication, I believe.  Should
    31        I check that?
    32
    33   Q.   I think it would help me to know definitely whether the
    34        figures there -- you may be cross-examined about it, of
    35        course, and particularly the McDonald's figures -- where it
    36        says "New earnings survey" the figures are what people were
    37        earning in the year ending April 1987 rather than that
    38        being the date on the cover of the survey itself?
    39        A.  Yes, certainly.
    40
    41   Q.   And whether the figures which you have taken for McDonald's
    42        purport to be for the same year or a later year?
    43        A.  Yes.  Right, I will check as best I can.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you ready to start now?
    46
    47   MS. STEEL:   I mean, we could but we would rather sort
    48        everything out.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will give you a choice.  If you want, you 
    51        can go on now with parts of your cross-examination which 
    52        are not affected by anything new or any elaboration you 
    53        have heard, or we can break off now and resume at
    54        2 o'clock.
    55
    56   MS. STEEL:  I think we would prefer to put everything in order
    57        bearing in mind the new documents.  Virtually all of the
    58        important evidence that Ms. Mead has given is the new
    59        documents.
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