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Fort. Court, not many cases & those we took were dull ones. Went to customs afterwards & discussed cost
of living which has not gone up & in many cases has gone down. Drove to Muharraq, still lots of mud
around the RAF camp so turned back & went round the east of the town - as usual saw a bunch of youths
gambling.

Meeting of Golf Club committee, Mrs Mathews & Mrs Penfold came to & sat with M & talked about local
wages & prices. Gornall and Holdstock came in to talk about taking a photograph of HH. Stayed rather late.

Tuesday 16th January

Fort, went over race course & arranged for work to be done there by prisoners. HH & Sh A came & Stanner
came to call, looking very well. They seemed really pleased to see him, he stayed some time. Gray morning
later heavy rain which continued most of the afternoon. Seyd Said & Mahsen Jajar came, the latter as usual
very sour & full of complaints saying that Govt didnt employ Shias which is absurd, also talked about
various Wahf claims for prices of ground. Painted in afternoon. M went to a war fund committee meeting.

HH was quite amiable & only discussed Zubara for half an hour, the rest of the time talked about the coming
meeting between Ibn Saud & Farouk which is said to be coming off shortly & the increase in crime in Bn
particularly motor thefts & the light sentences passed by PA in the car case. Very heavy rain at night.