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& the new road and Seyd Ahmed's retirement from Wahf Dept and buying Daij's fish market. Meant to go to
the Fort but simply couldnt get away, saw Wakelin about the Bahai teacher who it is now decided must go.
Drove down to Sitra in the afternoon the country looking very pretty with splashes of light green & yellow
grass very cloudy & stormy looking & in the evening a strong gale blew up.
Getting on with the road widening work, a lot of palm trees cut down, it looks as if a tornado had swept the
edge of the road & smashed all the trees.
HH, according to Narayan, very annoyed with the Bapco because they did not offer to pay for all the road
widening, also he wants municipalities at Rafaa & Hedd.
Monday 26th February
In court all the morning, spent most of the time on the big accident case which is a difficult one to tackle.
Quite a cold day, a strong Shamaal for several days.
Went for a ride in the afternoon to Jedhafs & across to the main road, looked at various things, the ration
shop & Jedhafs market.
