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1 questioned about the alleged 'membership' and finally
2 admitted that she had never been a member. She did claim
3 after saying this that she had met a Greenpeace London
4 activist when she was in an amateur theatre company in
5 London and had attended one Greenpeace London demonstration
6 against McDonald's but could not state when or where it
7 was. This is my best recollection of the 'environmental
8 affairs officer's' talk at Selwyn College in Auckland, New
9 Zealand in September 1990."
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11 Actually, what we should have done was refer you to the
12 advertisement that he is referring to. It was actually
13 referred to in the notes of Miss Tiller this morning and it
14 was one where McDonald's in New Zealand were trying to
15 discredit London Greenpeace by saying that.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you have a reference for that?
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19 MS. STEEL: I am going to have problems finding it. I will see
20 if I can find it.
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22 MR. MORRIS: Can I say that Ms. Steel finished with the words
23 "in September 1990", and there is the signature of the
24 writer Ross Gardner. We will have to check. It is in the
25 original list of documents.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would like you to refer me to it and then I
28 can see what you are getting at with that witness. You
29 need not do it now. Do not look for it now. It is up to
30 you to draw my attention to the advertisement you say, or
31 one of them, which you say Ross Gardner is referring to.
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33 MS. STEEL: I know the letter that Mr. Gardner actually sent at
34 the time is in the file of documents. You remember that I
35 put to some of the inquiry agents letters that were
36 disclosed as having been taken from the London Greenpeace
37 office and copied for McDonald's files. It is in that
38 bundle.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I appreciate that you are anxious about
41 leaving things over to be picked up later, but do so in
42 this instance, because it is going to take some time to
43 find it and we cannot justify court time while you are just
44 looking around for it.
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46 Do you have anyone else to read this afternoon, Mr. Morris?
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48 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Stop looking for that now and look for it
51 later.
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53 MR. MORRIS: The only other thing is --
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55 MR. ATKINSON: Can I just say I have been handed by Mr. Morris
56 something that purports to come from Burger King Customer
57 Relations but Mrs Brinley-Codd instructs me that she has no
58 report of it having been given to us. In any event, I
59 mean, it is a bit difficult for your Lordship to follow
60 without the document, but it is not clear as to who has
