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     1        would be to the returning to school and college, reasons
     2        for leaving which we referred to earlier, the 20 odd per
     3        cent of people who go through under that code.  So that is
     4        some documentary evidence which you have here on that
     5        point.
     6
     7   Q.   So some percentage of those may return having been to
     8        school or college ---
     9        A.  Quite a lot of those ---
    10
    11   Q.   -- may return?
    12        A.  -- would do that.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I see, by and large, the turnover rates are
    15        higher for the quarter ending September 30th and March 31st
    16        than they are for the other two quarters each year.  Is
    17        there any significance in that?  Does it having anything to
    18        do with, for instance, the long summer and Christmas
    19        holidays and vacations?
    20        A.  Yes, it tends to be a seasonal thing when people are
    21        then going back to university or college at those times.
    22        Those are the times when they are likely to end,
    23        particularly the September one.  That is when they have
    24        worked.
    25
    26   Q.   So they go back in September and they go back in January
    27        which is in the 31st March quarter?
    28        A.  Yes, that is right.
    29
    30   MS. STEEL:   When they come back they would be starting again at
    31        the basic rate?
    32        A.  It would depend; it is quite likely that if they have
    33        worked before they would restart on the rate at which they
    34        left.
    35
    36   Q.   How long would you keep that open?
    37        A.  I think it depends on each situation, how long the
    38        person had worked for the Company before and so on.  So, it
    39        might be a matter of months, perhaps, if they did not
    40        return for one vacation or something like that, they would
    41        still remain.
    42
    43   Q.   So is that entirely discretionary?
    44        A.  It is something, yes, that would be discussed between
    45        the Manager and the individual when the person wanted to
    46        return.  (Pause)
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  While Ms. Steel is looking for that, could
    49        you help me with one other thing on G1 because I have not
    50        got a calculator here, although I can do a bit of mental 
    51        arithmetic.  Where you have the full-time males, for 
    52        instance, there by "Occupation", it has a weekly figure and 
    53        it has an hourly figure.  Do you know whether, taken from
    54        the New Earnings Survey, they are figures obtained from
    55        separate sources or just the one multiplied by 39 or
    56        something of that kind?  I would guess, knowing the New
    57        Earnings Survey, they are both averages plucked from their
    58        own columns without ----
    59        A.  I am not sure whether the hourly rate figure actually
    60        comes from the survey; it may be just that it is dividing

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