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1 pulp for McDonald's packaging in the UK and by the way
2 provide lots of timber for other purposes, apart from pulp
3 for packaging, and at least maintain the status quo of
4 timber in that forest? Do you understand ---
5 A. I do indeed.
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7 Q. -- what I have put to you?
8 A. Yes.
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10 Q. It can be as rough and ready as it likes, but if you feel
11 you can be able to do that, I would be grateful.
12 A. Yes. My Lord, if we can take the example, the south
13 Scotland one, which is very close to what is being said by
14 Enso-Gutzeit in regard to Finland, I could develop that in
15 terms of what we believe (and I mean by that I would take
16 authoritative opinion as well) would be the total forest
17 area which could continuously support that yield needed to
18 produce that amount of raw material for packaging. It is
19 actually Europe we are coming under the 13,000 ton, but
20 I will do that and would be very happy to do so.
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22 Q. A lot of other people would be getting use of it as well?
23 A. Yes.
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25 Q. Everyone from chipboard makers ---
26 A. Absolutely.
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28 Q. -- to pine furniture makers and so on?
29 A. Yes, absolutely. So, it is a product range of which
30 the pulp for packaging is but one, but what we want to do,
31 because we have taken gross area, both thinned and felled,
32 we want to find how big an area would be needed to maintain
33 the level of productive material which is shown in these
34 figures, and that I would be very happy to do.
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36 MR. MORRIS: I am not sure where to go now.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just sit down and have a pause; if you want
39 the five-minute break now, say so.
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41 MR. MORRIS: May it would be useful to have it now.
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43 (Short Adjournment)
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45 MR. MORRIS: I would like to seek a little bit of guidance in
46 that would it be appropriate to continue working through
47 the statement?
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Might I suggest this, that you are selective
50 about where it is necessary to make challenges. If there
51 are fairly small matters, leave those. I would be very
52 surprised, for instance, if Mr. Rampton picked up every
53 point of factual or opinion, detail, when asking your
54 witness any questions.
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56 When you come to something where there is a challenge,
57 I suggest you with one or two questions say, "I suggest
58 that that is wrong because", or "that that does not give
59 the true picture because", just so we can see where the
60 issue is.
