Day 097 - 06 Mar 95 - Page 62


     
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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  Under "Guidelines for the safe loading and
     3        unloading movement of livestock" what is a "coaxer"?
     4        A.  A stick or alternative I would imagine.
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     6   Q.   It is not a special term of art for a goad, although it
     7        might be a goad?
     8        A.  It could be a goad I suppose, but, no, it is not.
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    10   Q.   Turning on to tab 9 which is after you and your documents,
    11        if I can put it like that, tab 9 of this bundle.  You will
    12        find there a statement by Mr. David Walker of McKeys.
    13        Behind his statement there are a whole of lot of documents
    14        which I am afraid probably do not have numbers on them, but
    15        one of them should be a folding plan, in your case folded.
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    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Shall we have the break there?
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    19   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, I am just going to go swiftly through the
    20        operation.
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    22                       (Short Adjournment).
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    24   MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Chambers this plan you see before you is not a
    25        map or plan of your plant; it is, I am afraid to say, one
    26        of your competitors, Jarrets of somewhere in the West
    27        Country.  Can you just cast your eye over it, follow its
    28        layout, and then I will ask you a question.  Tell me when
    29        you have absorbed the generality of it.  It starts, as you
    30        see, with the stun pen and finishes at the chill rooms.
    31        Roughly speaking, how similar or dissimilar is this in its
    32        essential characteristics with what one would find at your
    33        plant?
    34        A.  Obviously the operations are the same.  Ours is
    35        slightly different in that we have two of most of the
    36        stations which you see on there.
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    38   Q.   Is that just a function of size, do you think?
    39        A.  Yes.  It moves two carcasses along at a time.
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    41   Q.   Are there, effectively, two lines then?
    42        A.  No, there is one line, but rather than moving one
    43        carcass it will move two carcass worth each time.  Apart
    44        from that, it is pretty much the same.
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    46   Q.   It is?
    47        A.  Our hide and gut room, etc., are below the slaughter
    48        hall.  It is fed by chutes.
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    50   Q.   I did not catch that?  Below the slaughterhouse? 
    51        A.  Yes, they fall down chutes. 
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    53   Q.   There appears to be a chute, in this drawing there appears
    54        to be a chute to the gut table, but we cannot tell from
    55        looking at this maybe what happens after that.  There is
    56        something which says "hatch" on the lower right-hand side?
    57        A.  Rather than having a hatch we would have a hole
    58        and -----
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    60   Q.   So those facilities at your plant are beneath ground?

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