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Sunday 28th May
Spent a long time in the Govt shop at Hedd, examined some of the ration
holders & found they were drawing full rations for children & adults
which upsets our calculations.
Monday 29th May
Fort.
Court. Dull morning but a long sitting, a smuggling case & the Abdu Ali
case & the Doi case. Ali & Daij seemed rather loath to sentence the
smuggling case & later heard it was Ali's brother in law.
Drove to the library, met Roselle & took her down to see the camel patrol
there then had a drink at their house. Bill flew to India in the morning
for local leave.
Tuesday 30th May
Fort.
HH out hunting so had some spare time to catch up with an awful
accumulation of office work. Saw Mohd , Wakelin & Hick, the last
had a lot to say about the Police, some quit sensible some not. Wakelin
discussed question of staff & accomodation of new teachers - a difficult
problem. M D re loans from the Idara - there is so much money about that
none want to borrow at the comparatively low rate they offer & building
is out of the question so they dont know what to do with their funds. M
Jaffar left for India.
Called on the Meikles, she is quite a pleasant little Scotch woman but
neither of them are exciting.
Wednesday 31st May
