Page 1722 - Belgrave Diaries(N)_Neat

1719

1944

Thursday 24th June

No parade as the Police were all out rounding up Persians last night.
Office,busy morning, wrote long note on medical meeting & on price
levels. In afternoon went with Matthews, Smith & Olver to Awali & ran
the shooting competition at the Fete, a tiring job & a lot of work for
small results, only got about 60/- in three hours. It was the usual sort
of show, some quite ingenious stalls & some very dull. A lot of soldiers
& sailors present & quite a number of people altogether.

Friday 25th June

A very lazy day, wrote letters & read & went to Abu Saila to do a sketch
after tea. Quite cool.

In evening got information of a distillery & arranged for a search to be
made. It was successful & the people caught red handed.

Saturday 26th June

Fort.

Busy morning. HH & Sh A came in. HH seemed in a bad temper. Dealt with
a few cases with Sh A. The Police caught a Kuwaiti trying to smuggle
gold soverigns & notes out of Bn in a tin trunk with a false lid to it.
A very good catch, 110 soverigns worth about Rs 6000/-

Went to Fort & watched men practising for sport. One or two were very
good at pole jumping.

Got some flowers from Fort. Gunns & Campbell to dinner & bridge, dined
on terrace but played inside owing to insects.