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selves on a most successful experiment, "business was "brisk,
deposits were heavy, one non-Goverament account alone amounting
to Rupees thirteen lakhs, and merchants preferred payment in

cheques to payment in coin. This happy result was in large part
due to the energy and personality of the Manager who nearly paid
dearly for his enthusiasm and overwork "by contracting typhoid
fever during the summer and "being ill for three months.

XV". VISITORS,
There have "been more visitors this year than during the
whole of the last ten years and the majority of the visitors have

either stayed or lunched at the Agency which has on many occasions
resembled a hotel.
At times it has been necessary to call on the other

British residents to help in accommodating guests and, inspired
as they all are with a genuine desire to help those whose lot is
harder than our own, their response has always been most grati­
fying insplte of the inconvenience of putting up strangers at
short notice and the expense involved with prices several hundred

per cent, above the pre-war rates and essentials^now become
luxuries;scareely obtainable even at very high prices.
XVI. ?-IETE0a0I0GI0&L.

Total rainfall during the year : 2.73"
Maximum temperature: (in July; 121.5
Minimum temperature: (in January) 33.

Major,
February , 1943. Political Agent, Kuwait.