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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."
    10
    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.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you have a reference for that?
    18
    19   MS. STEEL:  I am going to have problems finding it.  I will see
    20        if I can find it.
    21
    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.
    26
    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.
    32
    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.
    39
    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.
    45
    46        Do you have anyone else to read this afternoon, Mr. Morris?
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Stop looking for that now and look for it 
    51        later. 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  The only other thing is --
    54
    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

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