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[Note: 1944 diary entries are in a 1941 diary with dates corrected in
pencil. First entry is Thursday 10th February.]

Thursday 10th February

Fort, busy till near 9.30.

Friday 11th February

Meeting of Races committee at Awali. Spent most of morning out there.
Gardened in afternoon. Welland & one Lu, survey man in Karachi, came to
call. Quite warm day.

Tuesday 15th February

Fort.

As usual a long time in the office. Rode, the mare behaved very well.
HH came in & Sh A, as usual, discussed YK, case of son of Abdulla Juma &
dates. Went down to see Smith about tomorrow's meeting & then to see
Steele about the case of his head clerk.

T.T.s came in but not for long as we were going out. I fancy he scents a
job in place of Steele.
Dinners at Harrisons, Snows present, a pleasant evening, he I always find
interesting & quite a good dinner too.

Wednesday 16th February

Rode, didnt go to Fort. Radstrom & a man from Casoc came to ask advice
on our methods of assessing land values. Food Committee, went on till