Day 276 - 09 Jul 96 - Page 16


     
     1   Q.   By other companies?
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   And they would all be buying the same kind of cattle that
     5        you are buying, effectively, apart from your own?
     6        A.  I really don't know what other people are buying.  I
     7        don't know whether people are exporting to different parts
     8        of the world.  I do not know what kind of cattle they are
     9        buying or what they are buying it for.
    10
    11   Q.   But, basically, you are buying whatever was typical in the
    12        area.  You would be buying that kind of cattle?
    13        A.  Well, I think we like to think we buy the best.
    14
    15   Q.   Presumably, all the companies believe that do they?
    16        A.  I am sure they do.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:  No further questions.  Thank you.
    19
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  I have no questions in examination.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you for coming, Lord Vestey.  Leave
    23        everything there and someone else will clear it.
    24        A.  Thank you very much.
    25
    26                          (Witness withdrew)
    27
    28   MS. STEEL:  Could we have 10 minutes so I can sort all my papers
    29        out?
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, certainly.  Can I just say one thing?  I
    32        was going to ask you, when you did come back to the witness
    33        box you gave some evidence really at the close about the
    34        man holding the box which you said, which was a new feature
    35        in the evidence, I am not making any comment about that,
    36        about poster sized front pages, as it were.
    37
    38   MS. STEEL:  Yes, Mr. Nicholson had referred to the man with the
    39        box.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I know he did, but it was the first time that
    42        it occurred to me that they might be, it was suggested that
    43        the box might hold poster sized posters, as it were.
    44
    45   MS. STEEL:  No, I was not suggesting that.  I was saying that he
    46        had taken a copy of the fact sheet and made it into a --
    47        made the front cover into a -- poster which he then stuck
    48        on the cover of a box.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is precisely -- oh, I see.
    51
    52   MS. STEEL:  There is -- obviously in the box he is just holding
    53        the lid up.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I want you to do then, you may be able
    56        to help me in a further way.  I thought the purpose of
    57        putting that was that the box itself might itself hold
    58        poster sized sheets.
    59
    60   MS. STEEL:  No.

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