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                                                                  DAY 217
 
                                                     MRS. HOVI, Examined:
 
 
 
     1        layout of the ------
     2
     3   Q.   By "changes", you mean inconsistencies, do you?
     4        A.  I do not know whether Jarrets has actually carried out
     5        these changes after I worked there.  I have no idea.
     6
     7   Q.   I am sorry.  I think it is probably my fault.  We are at
     8        cross-purposes.  What I am asking you -- and perhaps
     9        I should leave it to Mr. Morris and Mr. Rampton, but I have
    10        embarked on it now -- is whether you have noticed anything
    11        on this plan which is not as it was when you were there.
    12        Do you understand?
    13        A.  Yes.  I have ------
    14
    15   Q.   You told me about the pithing rod sterilizer; you told me
    16        about the puller chain sterilizer; you told me about the
    17        boot wash.
    18        A.  Those are all the changes, all the differences. (Pause)
    19        Well, now, I am sorry, I have to come back on that one.
    20        When I gave evidence last time, I said that there was a
    21        door into the hide and skins room from the slaughter line,
    22        through which the bins were wheeled on to the dirty side of
    23        the abattoir.  This door has been marked in a more accurate
    24        way now, or it has been left out in a way now, because what
    25        they want to say exists there is another chute coming from
    26        the platform.
    27
    28   MR. MORRIS:  Another chute into the hide and skins room?
    29        A.  Yes.  The other chute did exist, but underneath the
    30        other chute there is a proper door that connects the hides
    31        and skins room and the abattoir.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So where the chute goes through, are you
    34        saying -----
    35        A.  The chute goes into the hides and skins room.  It comes
    36        from a high platform.
    37
    38   Q.   Where was the double rubber door?
    39        A.  It is underneath the chute.
    40
    41   Q.   When you say "is", you mean in April 1994 when you were
    42        there it was?
    43        A.  That is right.  Mr. Bone admitted in his statement that
    44        these bins were actually wheeled through such a door.
    45
    46   MR. MORRIS:  I do not know if it is necessary to go through
    47        this.  There are quite a lot of differences in the two maps
    48        from before and now.  But, really, it is up to Mr. Rampton
    49        to put, I would have thought, because, I mean, just simple
    50        things I can see immediately are different or  ..... 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  It is accepted that there are a lot of 
    53        differences.  Mr. Bone gives his explanation, or his
    54        statement does, of why there are differences.  So it seems
    55        to me what I have to concern myself with is whether,
    56        granted that the first plan was an inaccurate one, this new
    57        plan is an accurate portrayal of the plant as it was when
    58        Mrs. Hovi was there in April 1994.  She has told me of four
    59        instances -- respects, rather -- in which she says it is
    60        not an accurate portrayal of the position when she was
 
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