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1940

Office. Kozaibi called, about selling his house & land. Wants more, I had offered 75,000/- for house &
30,000/0 for the piece of ground. Shall go up to 80,000 and 40,000 = 120,000/-

Went to tomb in afternoon, did not go to Mrs Lipps. Worked late.

Monday 9th May

Fort. Building new married lines, better houses than the present ones. On the rifle range for some time, a
recruit section & Headquarters all firing so busy up there. Am considering a batch of promotions of junior
NCOs. Office. Went to Agency for a little while to borrow a book. Discussed oil as usual. Saw various
people.

Went down to the hospital in evening, it is getting on very well, then had a bathe & went to Mespers for

Bridge. Very few people there. The Millers are leaving & there was a big party at Jebel.

Packer came in in the morning as usual wanted information which he couldn't get. The old Kadi came &

brought his will, he has appointed me as executor, somewhat embarrassing. Iraq Times published my P.G.
artcile in full.

Tuesday 10th May

Didn't go to the fort as I had a lot of Title deeds to sign & other papers to deal with. The KB Agriculturist
returned, he is staying another ten days. Saw various people. Shuloom & Mazook had a fight, tiresome. I
don't seem to be able to get on with Annual Report which is months overdue. In afternoon I had the ponies
out near the palace & let them do a bit of galloping which they enjoyed very much, one or two are very fast.
Then went to the tombs, they have unearthed another big one, looks important & interesting, then looked

in on Fisher. His flat seems very nice & the garden, mostly lawn, is getting on very well indeed. Quite
pleasantly cool still. Letter from M. A lot of tiresomeness in a general way, people seem to be getting
irritable with the coming of the summer. More Deportation cases. Bird called about buying a piece of land
& building a house.