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                                                                  DAY 217
 
                                                     MRS. HOVI, Examined:
 
 
 
     1        there in 1994.  I understand her to say that otherwise it
     2        is accurate.  Yes, Mr. Rampton?
     3
     4   MR. RAMPTON:  All I was going to say was, I do not know that
     5        there is four.  The green boot wash, it is accepted, was
     6        not there when she was there.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
     9
    10   MR. RAMPTON:  It says so on the actual map.
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    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  When I say "inaccuracies", I mean inaccurate
    13        not in a pejorative sense, but in the sense that it does
    14        not portray things as they were in April 1994.
    15
    16   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I thought she had accepted that the
    17        drawing of the mess chamber and toilet for the men and also
    18        the first floor above, for the other people, was
    19        representative of what was there when she was there.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have not said that, have I?
    22
    23   MR. RAMPTON:  I am sorry.  I thought it was the only two
    24        differences that she noticed, from what she remembered, was
    25        the pithing rod sterilizer and the hide chain sterilizer.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, and the boot wash which, as is common
    28        ground, came in later anyway.
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, that is right, yes.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The final one is that it does not show a
    33        double rubber door where the other chute goes in, and she
    34        says there is a double rubber door under there.
    35
    36   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, it is accepted that the two bins which
    37        take the fore feet and the hind feet bins, which are two
    38        separate bins, do go through into the hide skin rooms, so
    39        whether it is through the chute or some other gap in that
    40        wall really does not matter.
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:  I am not clear what Mr. Rampton is saying the
    43        witness is accepting with regards to the mess and the
    44        changing room.
    45
    46   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness)  The mess that you have referred
    47        to, Mrs. Hovi, is the one on the bottom left, next to the
    48        13?
    49        A.  I have referred to that only, not to express an
    50        inaccuracy in the map.  I refer to that because I was 
    51        talking about the ninth paragraph in Mr. Bone's statement 
    52        where he states that ----- 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You say that is where the mess and the linen
    55        store were, but they were Portakabins, and you had to walk
    56        from the mess, after getting changed, through the door
    57        which is down the side of the other mess, changing room
    58        toilet, and then into the slaughter hall itself?
    59        A.  Yes.
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