Day 077 - 25 Jan 95 - Page 80
1 Q. What sort of land did you see them growing on?
2 A. Scrub, pampas.
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4 Q. How long did you spend on that exercise?
5 A. A full, long day.
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7 Q. Did Mr. Day show you any map while you were there, can you
8 remember?
9 A. I cannot remember.
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11 Q. As clearly as you can remember now, how far, if at all, was
12 anything that Mr. Day said inconsistent with what
13 Lord Vesty had said to you in June of that year in that
14 letter?
15 A. Nothing.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know where Peter Day is now? Have you
18 had any contact with him recently?
19 A. No, sir, I have not. He has probably gone back to Rock
20 Hamilton, Queensland, which was his home but that is pure
21 supposition.
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23 MR. RAMPTON: He is an Australian, is he?
24 A. Australian.
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26 Q. What sort of age of man would he be now, do you know, apart
27 from the fact he is 11 years older than he was then?
28 A. I guess he is 40, 45.
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30 Q. I see, so he is not an old man?
31 A. Oh, no. He was a Vesty trainee.
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33 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I have maps on which all the various
34 places are marked but, to be quite honest, I do not really
35 think there is any need to introduce them through a witness
36 because they speak for themselves -- they are public
37 documents -- unless your Lordship would like to look at one
38 now?
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. I am content to leave to you, Ms. Steel
41 and Mr. Morris to what extent I look at the maps. I looked
42 very briefly at a map which had various hatchings on.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
45
46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But I did not try to see where any of the
47 little blue boxes were particularly.
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49 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord. That is a different map. We believe
50 it is the Braslo map of which Dr. Gomez spoke.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But that is the only map. I have not done
53 any secret research with my own copy of the Times atlas or
54 anything like that.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: No. I have marked on it where the various places,
57 as best I can, referred to in the Vesty letter are. That
58 is for the witness and that is for the Judge. I will speak
59 this out loud so it gets on the transcript.
60 (To the witness): We see San Paulo, do we not, at the
