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Naim to see hospital site. Cinema, Skonghai. Church Council meeting at Dames. HH arrived Bombay.
Wire from factor. Letter from RRM re Oxford tutor.

Saturday 15th January

Shs A & S. Wireless news re HH talk re foreign affairs. Rain. Postmaster re new office. In Zageb. M
dealing with Rest House. M Saleh re elections of Biladya Meglis. Rest House p.m. Dentist, called on
Faulkners, dinner Dames. Pennlip came to call.

Sunday 16th January

Mohd Saleh re elections. Holmes. Weightman came to see puppies. Beautiful day after rain. Narayan
before breakfast re accounts.

Gardened, Rest House. Drove to Essex point. Bridge at Nixs who leave on Thursday. Great crowd.
Church, C of E service at Jebel, quite well done, supper at Nixs. Lot of mud about. Wire from ABJ
apparently in difficulty over passages on pilgrim ship.

Monday 17th January

Fort. Case Abbas & wife. Saw Holmes re municipal elections, mail, letter from Hickinbotham. RAF, PWD
men called. Steele re school workshops. Election going on. Air mail late. Saw plans of hospitals in PWD
office. M at Rest House all the morning. Beautiful weather, cold & sunny. Gardened, went round to Rest
House & then to Idari to see a new proposed donkey track. Bridge at Mespers.

Tuesday 18th January