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     1   Q.   November 1992?
     2        A.  Yes.  It could have been perhaps a month before, but it
     3        is around that time.
     4
     5   Q.   I have not actually brought my transcript of yesterday up.
     6        There were other matters, but would you like to ask about
     7        those?
     8
     9   MS. STEEL:  Yes.  (To the witness):  The figures that are in the
    10        charts on the preceding pages, what year were they from?
    11        A.  They are from the same period of time, around November
    12        1992.
    13
    14   Q.   I think that was it on that for the moment.
    15
    16   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am trying to be helpful.  There was one
    17        other question Ms. Steel asked which was where the
    18        information came from on which those tables in G2 were
    19        based.  Ms. Mead can answer that too.
    20
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is quite right.
    22
    23   MS. STEEL:  Thank you.
    24
    25   THE WITNESS:  They are taken from a survey in which we
    26        participated, similar to the one at the end of this
    27        section, the Catering Review one, by a company called PE
    28        International which included those other retailers which
    29        are listed.  We have -- I have brought here a copy of the
    30        original from which it was lifted which again has only just
    31        arrived this morning, but that is the document from which
    32        we took our information.
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  Is it OK for us to look at this over lunch or some
    35        convenient time?
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest is by all means look at it
    38        during the mid-day adjournment.  I do not know how long you
    39        think you are likely to take with cross-examination of
    40        Ms. Mead.  Do not prolong your cross-examination because
         you are anxious to reach a natural break where you can look
    42        at it because I will give you an opportunity to look at it
    43        anyway.  But, by the same token, if I might suggest, do not
    44        feel that you necessarily have to put something to Ms. Mead
    45        because, if you were sitting down in September and having
    46        another look at that and some point cropped up to you,
    47        I would not stop you and I very much doubt Mr. Rampton
    48        would object just drawing my attention to it as a matter of
    49        comment.  So do not be concerned you are missing
    50        something.  There we are. 
    51 
    52        I will not repeat the comments I made yesterday about being 
    53        able to use the figures which Ms. Mead has given you anyway
    54        in these documents.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  (To the witness):  There was a question about
    57        you did not have a copy of New Earnings Survey?
    58        A.  No, not with me but we have found it at our office and
    59        again it has been brought.
    60