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     1   MS. STEEL:   Is it possible to have a reference for that?
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     3   THE WITNESS:   No, I do not think that is -- I was there
     4        definitely for three weeks full-time, and my working hours
     5        were extremely long, because the other vet who was provided
     6        to share the workload with me was not qualified at the
     7        time, and he could not be left on his own at the plant,
     8        because he could not sign certificates.  So my working
     9        hours were often from 6.00 in the morning till 5.00 in the
    10        afternoon; and I worked two Saturdays, as well.  My time
    11        sheets, I understand you have my time sheets.
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  I have got two of them, to be fair to you.  I can
    14        tell you that -- somebody else can work them out as I read
    15        them out; that is going to save time.  My mental arithmetic
    16        is appalling.  Yours is probably very good, because you are
    17        a scientist.  The first week was 44 hours; second week, 40
    18        and a half hours; third week, 39 and a half.  Somebody tell
    19        me, please, what that totals.  84 and 40 is something over
    20        124 hours, I think.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What was the final week?
    23
    24   MR. RAMPTON:  39 and a half, I think, my Lord.
    25
    26   MS. STEEL:   They do show that she was there five days a week
    27        for three weeks.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You told me last time that you were there for
    30        14 and a half days, which would be essentially five days a
    31        week.
    32        A.  Yes.
    33
    34   Q.   Does that sounds right?
    35        A.  Yes, that sounds right, yes; plus I visited the plant
    36        on three occasions during the week I was absent.
    37
    38   MR. RAMPTON:  I make the total exactly on those sheets 124
    39        hours.
    40
    41        Do you agree that Mr. Bone has spent a very great deal more
    42        time in this plant day-to-day, year in, year out, than you
    43        ever have done?
    44        A.  Yes.
    45
    46   Q.   What is your explanation, Mrs. Hovi, of the fact that he
    47        says there has always been a hide chain sterilizer, not
    48        just in the hide skin room, but also out by the brisket,
    49        the other side of the beef line, and that there has also
    50        always been a pithing rod sterilizer? 
    51        A.  I do not understand that statement, because the 
    52        equipment was not there when I worked at Jarrets. 
    53
    54   Q.   Looking at this map, I would like you to think about this
    55        quite carefully.  There is a man in brown -- at least,
    56        I call him brown; he might be maroon -- by the bleed hoist
    57        on the left hand side.  He is facing towards the
    58        southwest.  Do you see him?
    59        A.  Yes.
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