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1 trees growing which were not planted, and reducing it
2 gradually over three thinnings to around 600 trees per
3 hectare when the final felling takes place.
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5 Q. That would be a fairly typical example in a Scandinavian
6 forest?
7 A. In a typical forest which supplies the kind of raw
8 material with which we seem to be concerned in this case.
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10 Q. That will be a particularly well-managed example?
11 A. In the case of Finland and Sweden, it is typical
12 throughout.
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14 Q. If we just go to a particular document, it might be
15 helpful? It is the statement of Casper Van Erp. I do not
16 know what colour the bundle is; I think it is yellow, is it
17 Plaintiffs' Witness Statements, it is Civil Evidence Act.
18 Someone might have to help me.
19 A. Could you please tell me -----
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21 Q. Can someone identify which bundle it is?
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. We are looking for it.
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25 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think it is yellow volume XII.
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27 MR. MORRIS: Yes, section A. It is the first statement in
28 there. If by any chance you can find page 12A, it is not
29 the twelfth page, but it is numbered 12A by hand. You have
30 that?
31 A. Yes.
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33 Q. Is it a telefax?
34 A. From Mattisalste.
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36 Q. Yes. From M-A-T-T-I-S-A-L-S-T-E of Enso-Gutzeit Oy
37 Packaging Boards Division to Perseco, Europe, McDonald's
38 supplier. If you look on the fourth paragraph down, it
39 says: "In Southern Finland, where Enso operates, the
40 growth is 4.4 cubic metres an acre", is that right -- 5.4,
41 sorry?
42 A. Per acre?
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44 Q. Per acre, yes. "The forest cycle is about 100 years". I am
45 just trying to talk about 100 year period would be a
46 reasonable one, yes ---
47 A. Yes.
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49 Q. -- for this? Before we go into the details of that (if
50 indeed we do), when plantations are thinned, if out of 3 to
51 5,000 trees per hectare 600 are left by the end, yes, the
52 majority of trees taken out of the plantation are due to
53 thinning; is that correct?
54 A. A number of trees?
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56 Q. The number of trees?
57 A. Yes, but he is talking here about the yield over a
58 period of 100 years, including thinnings and the final
59 fell.
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