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natural]/ caused great dieocntent amongst the Rooidcnoy staff,'
who had received no war allowance of an/ kind uhntaoover. A

high proportion of the tenporory non resigned and flavor©! per­
manent handa prafarrad to gito up cany yaara pcnoionable service
rathar than oontlnua to aarra radar such arduous condition a*

Hot vaa moral* halpad by tha death In tragic and dlotrooolng
olroumetanoea of three of the senior and more experienced
members of the staff. The poeition improved in iray vfoen tha
Government of India eventually granted dearqeaa allowance which

to aome extent compensated for the altered condiiicna. Ho
allovanoee however were granted to any of tho officaro of the
Indian Political Service.

It la Interacting to recall that owing t? proao of work
and ehortag* of staff during the first three months of 1943 tha
Confidential offiea received three afternoons* holiday, work
otherwise proceeding continuously throughout that period, A

further feature which had showed itself earlier in the war now
began to exerdae an inoreaelngly adverse effect, For many years
no attempt had been made to train up officers for the Gulf service,

rad though a handful had acquired experience and languages of
their om volition, they were in no way adequate for this highly
teohnloal and responsible task.
Tht utmost oonfualon was caused by tha reduction of tha

post of Aialstaat Englnaar vhloh had baen recommended in 1942.
The Public Yorks Department naturally devolved Into a state of

ohaoa, and no works ware undertaken, with tha result that tha
buildings suffered greatly and all the grants for 1943 lapsed.
On return to tha Gulf X immediately brought all possible pressure
to bear upon tha Government of India for tha restoration of ths

post» but no offloer oould be found to undertake It throughout .
this y 9 so that idea overdue works wore finally put la band

they toot many times what they would have dons if they had boon
wonted at tho proper time • A ease la point is tho Buahiro
aerodrome which was originally programed for 1942# but owing

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