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     1   Q.   And ---
     2        A.  I just never saw it happen.
     3
     4   Q.   -- from those measurements do you accept that, at any rate
     5        for all the weeks that we have got, there are no carcasses
     6        over 7 degrees?
     7        A.  Well, I suppose I have to accept that.  I did measure
     8        carcasses in boning hall often that were well below 4
     9        degrees.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You say for all the weeks; we have just got
    12        some days, have we not?
    13
    14   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord, we have disclosed, I think, 29th
    15        March through to 29th April.  The originals are here if
    16        anybody wants to see them.
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would like to look at that because I was
    19        looking at some of these -----
    20
    21   MR. RAMPTON:  Your Lordship is right, we only originally had a
    22        few, and prompted by your Lordship we went and got
    23        everything we could lay hands on from 29th March -- sorry,
    24        25th March through to the 29th April.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have not seen those, then.
    27
    28   MR. RAMPTON:  They should be in the Jarret file, Volume 7B
    29        yellow.  Your Lordship has the old one, I think.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You mean, behind the yellow divider those are
    32        all the ones which have been disclosed since what I have
    33        got marked as Jarret file was made up; is that right?
    34
    35   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right.  My Lord, it is the first divider
    36        after Mr. Bone's statement and its appendices.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, just pause a moment because this may be
    39        significant.  (Pause).  Yes, thank you.
    40
    41   MR. RAMPTON:  (To the witness):  How often, Mrs. Hovi, did you
    42        measure the temperature of these rejected French hind
    43        quarters?
    44        A.  Well, I cannot say exactly whether they were rejected
    45        French hind quarters or what they were.
    46
    47   Q.   As a shorthand.
    48        A.  I would be careful in using that word "rejected",
    49        but---
    50 
    51   Q.   "Unwanted". 
    52        A.  -- after I detected that there was a problem with the 
    53        temperatures, which was during the second week while I was
    54        working at Jarrets, I measured -- tended to measure the
    55        temperatures mainly at the despatch bay four or five times
    56        a day for over a period of 15 minutes, and I usually went
    57        into the boning room as well.
    58
    59   Q.   You see, this is what puzzles me, Mrs. Hovi, because we now
    60        have -- unless they are forges -- records on a virtually
 
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