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1935

Wednesday [29th May]

Office, innumerable people came in to see me, old Sh Ali of Senobes & others, I think being the one &
only Kadi has rather gone to his head, very tiresome if he takes to calling in office hours. Am sending
Haj Sulman & son down to India. Tennis court very good & hard after the flooding, its a grand idea.
Almost at the end of the morning Zayani & Tukandas arrived very urgently with Z's son Rashid who has
now left school and a Qattar Arab. 2 produced some pearls offered for sale by the Qattar, all said to be
cultured. It was a long history. Eventually I went down to the Customs, being more central & then sent
out the man who we had got, shadowed by Hamood & a policeman in mufti to catch the owner of the
pearls. They caught him & on searching him we found a lot more of the same kind. He was a nasty