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Richard Sullivan, an ADO who also had been in Kaduna and was now in the Secretariat in Lagos, lent me one of the Government Messengers from his office "so that I should have someone to help change the wheel, etc.! Much of it was through country, particularly that in Southern Nigeria, which otherwise I would never have seen.

My route was via Ibadan where I stayed with Donald Leich who had been on our Course at Cambridge and had visited me in Kaduna when up on some duty during my previous tour , Benin, Enugu, Makurdi and so to Jos. From Jos in my own car it would have been Zaria, Gusau and so to Sokoto. I started a letter home on 7th January "Waiting for the Ferry at Onitsha.

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When we got on the ferry I recorded: "Now on the ferry! Five cars, one lorry and the chinks full of Africans, compressed! An ADO who was Clerk to the Executive Council and who had been on our course though my comment was "no one thought much of him"! I wonder who he was! National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons led by Zik Dr Nuamndi Azikiwe , a clever lawyer and extremist politician who was the leader of the Ibos who inhabited most of the Eastern Region.

The Zikists ran an Eastern Nigerian newspaper of the sensationalist type and it was said that if you were a District Officer in the Eastern Region you were not dOing your job properly unless you had been reviled on the front page! I started my next your in an unusual but quite interesting way by travelling back on an Elder Dempster cargo ship, M.

Sangara of about 6, tons. This left from Tilbury and carried, I think, 12 to 16 passengers.

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It so happened that I had little in common with any of the other passengers but the Captain liked his sherry and I found myself asked up to his cabin most evenings to drink a glass! I was also allowed onto the bridge and had the radar demonstrated to me: range 30 miles and able to pick up a very small fishing boat at 5 miles. We passed within sight of Gran Canary and then at some point well off and out of sight of the coast of perhaps Mauretania we threaded through an area of rocky outcrops with rocks six or eight feet or less out of the water, totally bare, over an area of perhaps a square mile, presumably the peaks of some under water mountain.

I do not remember that they had even any birds on them. We called at Dakar for fuel and I recorded that it had "a rather fine bit of coastline - Cape Verde in the middle - quite tall grey cliffs with a white lighthouse on a hill top. Dakar was of particular interest because it had been the scene of the abortive Free French orientated expedition to capture it during the war. Then 12 hours round to Bathhurst in the Gambia where "we spent most of the day. We dropped two passengers, some sugar and some bales of empty sacks and took on some sections of metal aerodrome runway which Sierra Leone seems to have bought from the Gambia!

A clean looking place but so low lying that it must be rather hot: though they've always got a breeze off the river". Then it was Freetown in Sierra Leone where we layoff shore as there was no harbour for ships and all freight is taken ashore in lighters, the ship's derricks putting it over the side. Then the next stop was Takoradi in the Gold Coast where we lay alongside unloading for two days. I recorded that "the Captain took me out in a launch one evening fishing - spinning for barracuda - a sort of saltwater pike - a pleasant cruise round outside and inside the harbour but not a single bite!

One problem I had was to get the large packing case containing the new front mudguard for my truck up to Kaduna as quickly as possible. Until that had got to Kaduna and the mudguard had been fitted to the vehicle and painted I could not get on to wherever I was to go. Whether I got it taken into the passenger train or whether it went by goods train I did not record but it seems to have got there quite quickly.

I spent no time in Lagos as having got in on the Sunday I was in Kaduna on the Tuesday, a two night train journey. There I had a shock! I had assumed that I would have been on my way back to Sokoto again: instead I recorded: "I arrived here in good order on Tuesday and on Wednesday was much shocked to be told that I was to stay here for the moment with a vile possibility of a posting to Lagos in three months time! All of which was Hell!

They still haven't decided my fate finally. The job in Lagos is one which I am certain I cannot do - in the Office of the Council of Ministers Cabinet Office involving attending meetings, etc - at which I shouldn't hear anything! Meanwhile I am No. I am rapidly digging myself in as much as possible in order to stay in it". The threat of being sent down to Lagos persisted for a time but gradually receded.

I only realised how lucky I had been when Michael Varvi 11, who was in charge of postings, i. There were then apparently complaints about over-zealous young officers! The office which Victor Collison and I shared was a small room, perhaps 10 or 12 feet square, on the top or 3rd floor of the "Ivory Tower": this was the tower in the middle of the Secretariat office block which I have described much earlier in these notes.

Being right at the top it was, I suppose, meant to be that much more "secure"! We sat side by side at relatively small desks and between us we had a stand with at least two levels on which stood at least four telephones. One was on a normal outside line: a second was a closed line to the Nigeria Police C.

I think that there may also have been a closed line to Government Lodge for talking direct to H. On the floor in the Tower immediately below us was the Security Registry in which were kept all the "Confidential" files and also some even more "secret" files which had scarlet covers and which no African, even senior civil servants, were meant to know existed! This registry was manned by two European lady confidential secretaries, usually wives of Administrative or Police officers.

Our work was varied and interesting but, at any rate so far as I was concerned, all "office" work. I recall drafting rules for the grant of firearms certificates, perusing several years of intelligence reports, newspapers and the like cataloguing the subversive and defamatory statements over several years attributed to one particular way-out political party, re-drafting Emergency Regulations, sifting through intelligence reports sent in by Residents, coding and presumably also decoding secret letters and telegrams, and such like.

In other words we worked on the information, rumours and suspicions supplied to us by Residents and D. There were occasional unexpected duties: I recorded in February "Last Monday afternoon I had a comic task. I was sitting here the office half asleep when the phone rang and it was the Lieutenant Governor Sir Bryan Sharwood-Smith from miles away where he and Lady Sharwood-S had gone on tour by train separately from his Private Secretary who had gone on to a point further on the tour , to say that Lady S had not packed any "cocktail dress"!

He was really after Victor Collison whom he knows quite well but he was away: so I had to be trusted with the momentous task of going to Government Lodge, getting into their bedroom, finding a suitcase and the right two dresses, putting them in the case, going to the station and giving it to the guard of a goods train going down to Minna where the Lieutenant Governor was on tour!!!! I reckon I ought at least to get the M. So "Security" covered a multitude of tasks! As usual, acquiring a house in Kaduna took time. For the first fortnight or so I had to stay in the rather boring Catering Rest House.

Then Victor Collison kindly allowed me to share his house for a time and finally after another month I got my own house, No 8 Cunliffe Close, a newly built and rather plain bungalow. Fairly small but quite adequate. Shortly after I moved in Victor Collison was turned out of his house so that it could be rebuilt: since he was going on leave in four weeks there was no point in his being given another house so he came and shared mine!

At least it was repayment of his kindness to me.

One benefit of having him about was that he was quite a keen gardener and encouraged me to have some flower beds and plant some trees and climbing plants - bourganvillea, morning glory, etc. I also recorded that I had: "planted 40 neem trees and a couple of eucalyptus. All will produce results in years to come - but not just yet. By next year the neems should be 4 feet tall" Life outside the office was pretty full. Lunch and dinner parties, games of squash, including with Phiz Browne, the Colonial Secretary, shooting expeditions with John and Jean Matthew and of course polo which I was just beginning to play.

The shooting expeditions were out into the bush surrounding Kaduna in search of bush fowl as we called the francolin: we would walk these up through long grass: the birds if any! Only very rarely did I connect! He and my horse boy, Gayya, now arrived after a mile trek. I recorded: "Pride arrived on Monday: a bit lean after his mile walk but otherwise fit. Gayya likewise.

Pride is already filling out.

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I shall get the Vet to test his blood to make sure he's picked up no sleeping sickness as the last miles are through tsetse country. He travelled by night which should prevent him catching it but you never know. We played in the evenings three days a week.

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As had been the case when I was in Kaduna 2 years or so ago much depended on the Army and in particular the Gunner Battery but I recorded that "I don't think there are so many good players as two years ago but more altogether. Pride, my pony, having arrived after his trek from Gwandu in late February was in good form and seemed fine until late April when, despite having been tested for sleeping sickness on arrival and found to be free of it, he developed sleeping sickness.

He was given the appropriate injections and appeared to be recovering but a fortnight later we had to put him down. Very sad as I had had him quite a time and he had done me well. I recorded that it was: "Right from every angle except the sentimental one. That left me without a pony but I recorded that I immediately had "the Vet in Kano looking out for another one for me. Notwithstanding that I had no pony and so could not take part, I found myself made treasurer of the Polo Club and in due course found that the Club had been living above its means! The Polo Club was in fact a subsidiary of the main Kaduna Club so presumably somehow the main Club absorbed the loss!

I also found myself involved in our amateur race meetings: not, I hasten to record, riding but administering. I arrived from Kaduna about 3pm and found Shiona waiting for me, Bill having gone on to the racecourse: she had for me an Official Badge labelled "Judge"!

In the event they were not as short of judges as they thought they were so I did not have many duties to perform: but I got in free! The auction on Sunday morning was enlivened by two Africans attending the auction quarrelling and one hitting the other with a chair. So James Greig another A. In fact I was only on my own for about a month as Victor Collison left on 25th May and David Roberts arrived on 22nd June: and so far as I can remember there were no dramatic alarms for me to cope with!

Most of the work was mundane: checking papers, etc.