This paper presents a method to account for the quasi-static magnetic inter
action among circular holes in a conducting screen. Employing the oblate sp
heroidal system of coordinates, we derive expressions for the field arising
when magnetic point charges and dipoles of arbitrary orientation are broug
ht close to the hole in the plane of the screen. Using a set of two-dimensi
onal (2-D) integrals for the Legendre polynomials, the "modes" for the pote
ntial are interpreted as being due to certain eigenfunctions expressing the
density distribution of superficial magnetic dipoles in the plane of the h
ole, The dipole distributions are applied in discretised form to estimate t
he coupling of the surface polarizations of two similar circular holes.