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THE SUPREME COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
No 1148 of 1987
STEPHEN EDWARD JAMES TIMOTHY BARROW and CSR LIMITED and KIDALCO PTY LTD
No 1161 of 1987
PETER KEYS and CSR LIMITED and KIDALCO PTY LTD
ROWLAND J
TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS AT PERTH ON THUR5DAY, 2 JUNE 1988 AT 10.19 AM
Continued from 1/6/88
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Have you seen any document since 1979 that has caused
you to tell the court that the frequency of your visits
was tvo or three times a year
the period to 1952
rather than once a year and ofteh several times a year?
---- I don't see anything inconsistent. The evidence
I gave before vas at least once every year.
I see;-thank you. Well# you don't see any inconsistency. hay I-have that back/ Mr King? You told the court last Wednesday - transcript page 9078 - that in 194S you vent overseas and you saw the manufacture of asbestos products at Johns-hanville. * I*m not talking about the mine and mill, but rath.er at one of its .vorks at
Manville* Rev York?--Yes. * It'& hahv-ille", Nev Jersey. -
harvville, Nev Jersey?----Nev Jersey.
And you said that you couldn't recall equipment in relation to dust control specifically?--Yes -
You recall saying that. Well, nov, may I shov youtvo questions and answers. _ I vould ask you to look at the foot of the page numbered 329 and the first question on page 330/ and just read them to yourself, vould you?---The pages I have - I'm sorry, there are tvo sets of numbers.
Yes: look at the centre, if you would?------Yes; okay-
Yes.
Do you agree that in the case of Joosteri in 1979, hr Kennedy, counsel for Midalco, asked you about an inspection you made of a Johns-hanville textile plant at Nev Jersey in 1945?--Yes.
Do you agree that you told the court this, in answer to a question;
On your visits to the textile mills aid you notice any particular precautions vhich appeared to be taken in relation to asbestos dust there?
Your response was:
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jhetie :vere seyeral- things^.. The asbestos.'
'fibre wrv material vas dampened slightly
with" water........................so that there
vas negative air pressure around the equipment where the operators werestanding?
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------Yes.
Do you accept that that is the evidence you in fact gave in 1979?-------Certainly.
Nov that your recollection has been refreshed, cc vcu accept that that vas in fact vhac vcu C"