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DAY 217
MRS. HOVI, Examined:
1 did it because of poor management. I, myself, did not see
2 it as a serious problem. I thought that it was a problem,
3 that it would take some time to get to grips with, since
4 I had the authority to stop the line and regulate the
5 stunning, and it was a question of training the
6 slaughtermen to work at a more acceptable pace.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. What point do you want to make next, on
9 Mr. Bone's statement?
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11 MR. MORRIS: Could I just clarify what hours -- I think it came
12 up before -- what hours the actual slaughtering took place
13 between? It seems to be 7.00 in the morning on these
14 documents, and it finishes just after 12.00, but sometimes
15 it takes place in the afternoon as well.
16 A. Jarrets -- every slaughterhouse in this country is
17 authorised to slaughter between certain hours, and Jarrets
18 were authorised to slaughter between 6.00 in the morning to
19 6.00 in the afternoon; and it varied enormously from one
20 day to another, the slaughtering times.
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22 Q. Right. (Pause)
23 A. I think I am finished.
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25 Q. Can you just hold on one second?
26 A. Yes.
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28 Q. Just hold on one minute, please. If you look at page 3 of
29 appendix 6, between the hours of 7.05 and 12.20, they have
30 slaughtered, according to this -- which is what Mr. Bone
31 has relied on -- in a period of five hours and a quarter,
32 I make it 200 animals, something just slightly under 40,
33 say 40 an hour. So it appears from this document that
34 however much -----
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is 180, is it not -- unless you have taken
37 the second figure as a 50. I have taken it as a 30.
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39 MR. MORRIS: I think it is 50, to me, but maybe I am wrong. It
40 is completely different from all the other 3s. It is
41 clearly a 5. It adds up to 263 overall, so it must be a 5.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is a 5.
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45 MR. MORRIS: If they are slaughtering cattle between 7.05 and
46 12.20, 200, they are inevitably going to have to average
47 something like 40 an hour, however much they even it out,
48 are they not?
49 A. They would have at least half an hour break during that
50 time, as well, for breakfast.
51
52 Q. So, however well the floor management is, the through put
53 is just -- would it be fair to say that the through put is
54 just too great to achieve the 35 an hour speed for that
55 period?
56 A. They could work longer in the afternoon. They still
57 finished quarter past 5 for that day. They had two extra
58 hours for slaughtering.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. Yes.
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