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     1   Q.   So, Mr. Bone is wrong about that too, is he?
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   I see.  Then if you please look over to the other side of
     5        the page where the chill rooms are.  I would like you, if
     6        you would, to explain exactly what it was you were saying
     7        this morning.  I will start you off by reminding you that
     8        you said, when you were there, contrary to what Mr. Bone
     9        says, chill room one was used for sorting in-bone
    10        carcasses?
    11        A.  Yes.
    12
    13   Q.   Some of which only went into the boning room?
    14        A.  Yes.
    15
    16   Q.   Is that right?
    17        A.  Yes.  The chill room was used as a sorting room for all
    18        carcasses that came from the chill rooms 6, 5 and 2 and,
    19        basically, during the day.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Could you just pause a moment?
    22        A.  Yes.
    23
    24   Q.   Chill rooms 3 and 4 were for sheep?
    25        A.  Chill rooms 3 and 4 were for sheep only.  They were
    26        very low rooms and you could not hang a carcass there other
    27        than if you quartered it, which was one of the suggestions
    28        I made since we were not killing a lot of sheep at the time
    29        I was working there, which is normal in April.  I suggested
    30        that we would quarter the carcass and use those.
    31
    32   Q.   I remember that in your previous evidence, but when you say
    33        they were used for sorting in-bone carcasses it amounts --
    34        from 6, 5 and 2, it means all the cattle in the bone
    35        carcass -----
    36        A.  The cattle only.
    37
    38   MR. RAMPTON:  Not all at once?
    39        A.  No.
    40
    41   Q.   Just on the sheep, what do you mean by a lot of sheep --
    42        not killing a lot of sheep?
    43        A.  We were not killing a lot of sheep at the time.
    44
    45   Q.   What do you mean by "a lot of sheep"?
    46        A.  At this busy time of the year, when sheep are killed,
    47        Jarrets would kill up to a thousand sheep a day, starting
    48        first thing in the morning with sheep killing.
    49
    50   Q.   They were doing about, I think, 220 a week? 
    51        A.  Yes.  Very little sheep were killed at the time; that 
    52        is understandable; lambing season had just passed and lambs 
    53        are too small to be slaughtered.
    54
    55   Q.   You say the meat was taken from these various chillers,
    56        presumably at different times from different chillers, and
    57        put into chill room one to be sorted.  What I did not
    58        understand is what you say happened to it next?
    59        A.  Well, some of the carcasses went into the cutting room
    60        directly; some of the carcasses went into the corridor,
 
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