'Muscat. Wazir of - Appointment, Leave, Pay, etc, of' [‎124r] (257/546)

, -* na -- r Article 41 b) of t'm Financial Adviser*s
cretract it is stipulated that the annual leave of one month
i© to tc spent Outaide uocati tue oojeot, ol course# bein 4
that the leave should be spent in some place where the cliiaate
would be beneficial tu the Financial Adviser's health.
Itho-^h this is somswhat ambiguously worded I do not think
it intended to restrict the meaning of the word ^Eu^cat"
to the actual precincts of asoat tcwn» but tliat it was the
intention that tne xinanciaX Adviser should spend his leave
outside the '^uBoat .itate* however this ve, on arrival
at Muscat in Hovesaber, I discovered thai :ir* Thomas had gone
on an exploring expedition to ./horar* The h /%1 Said' was
goia^ to take the -ali of -hoiar down to Jhofar ai^d it was
the mtentim that Mr# rnomas should return by it# Major
Fowls however now imorats ma tiist the 0 A1 Uaid w has returned
from i^hofar, t ut Mr* rhoms nas not returned on it, but has
sent hi a a letter to the effect that he had applied to the
Council for one saonth 's special leave without pay from 1st
to olst secern- er« As Major Fowls points out, there are
no communications with Jhofar except ly dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. , which take a s
c onsiderable time, or by the rt Al aaid" whose trips coat a
^rcat deal oi aont^y, atid so no reply could te sent to this
a plication. further, from reports brought back ^y the
s
m M Said" it appears t'm t Mr# ihosaas has n»de for the :iuba-
rl-rhEli, leaving ..hofar about the 10th of ^eoember# It
seems therefore e mewhat improbable tiriat he will return even
ii-
by the olst x;eoem<. rr#
4, I consider Mr* Thomas 1 action deplorable* the
•luscat financial year ends t.n the cist December, and it was
essential that he should prepare the budget before tiie close
of the financial year for the guidance of his successor and
that