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if we can keep our questions real specific if any, and then breaking for a half-hour lunch <br />here, and then picking up from there. What are your thoughts on that? <br />IWASHITA:Sounds good. <br />SALAVEA:Sounds good. <br />ALAMEDA:Could we then move to our second testifier or witness. I have here <br />Mr. Freddy Rice. <br />RODRIGUES:Mr. Rice? Mr. Rice needs no introduction. <br />ALAMEDA:Could he introduce, could he share his own -. <br />RODRIGUES:Iwill. <br />ALAMEDA:Couldyouintroducehimandcouldhesharehisownbackground? <br />RODRIGUES:Yes. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay,thankyou. <br />RODRIGUES:Harold Frederick Rice, Jr. rancher extraordinaire. <br />RICE:Aloha ka kou. <br />ALAMEDA:Aloha. <br />RICE:Freddy Rice, I live in Kamuela, Hawai€i. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay, could I swear you in. Mr. Rice, will you raise your right <br />hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawai€i County Planning <br />Commission? <br />RICE:I do. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you. You may proceed. <br />RICE:Okay. Just to make it short, were very fortunate to have <br />somebody like Melvin available to haul our cattle and our water, do all the things that <br />youve heard, go at extreme hours, difficult roads, very important with the cattle. Its not <br />lumber or something like that. Its live animals and not only does he know how to <br />distribute the weight in the different compartments so that they dont crowd, he helps us <br />load and he helps us unload. If something goes wrong along the trip, we cant follow all <br />the trucks all the time, he knows what to do, how to fix it. Cow manure does happen. <br />25EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />