Day 091 - 17 Feb 95 - Page 62
1 think it would be make the stockman's job easier for the
2 checking of all that stuff, 25,000 birds, being caring
3 about their welfare if there were two people rather than
4 one doing that job?
5 A. I do not think it makes any difference whatsoever.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have mentioned three quarters of an hour,
8 but I have assumed -- tell me if I am wrong -- that the
9 stockmen takes as long as he thinks he needs, or is that
10 wrong, is there a constraint on his time?
11 A. Absolutely, three quarters of an hour would be a
12 routine visit, a routine walk, through the shed where there
13 was nothing wrong. If there was something which he was
14 concerned about and he had to deal with, he might be there
15 for three or four hours.
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17 MR. MORRIS: How often is he there for three or four hours?
18 A. I cannot answer that. It depends on whether anything
19 goes wrong.
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21 MS. STEEL: Just to clarify on each of those checks, would all
22 of those water feeders, the bell drinkers, the fans, the
23 feed containers, they would be checked on each and every
24 single ----
25 A. It is obvious if there is anything wrong with any of
26 this equipment. So, the checks, sometimes is subconscious
27 rather than conscious because it becomes obvious if there
28 is anything wrong with any piece of equipment.
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30 Q. So these checks are basically looking for the obvious?
31 A. Yes.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Shall we pause there?
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35 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you, Dr. Pattison.
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39 (The witness withdrew)
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Unless there is anything we must deal with
42 now?
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44 MR. RAMPTON: I just wondered what your Lordship wanted to do
45 with Monday, it being Friday. It is partly a question of
46 what one takes back with one.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I was going to sit in my room and work on
49 this case.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: That is what I was going to do. It is a question
52 of what one takes back from court. I do not know whether
53 your Lordship wants to continue, we could deal with some
54 interlocutory things.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, I have a backlog of those already which
57 I must get on with, unless there is something which is
58 particularly burning away. Since Dr. Pattison is not
59 available on Monday, I was not going to sit on Monday. You
60 were not pressing me to do so?
