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'File 8/8 VII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1948' [133r] (265/322)
The record is made up of 1 file (159 folios). It was created in 3 Jan 1949-11 Jan 1950. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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2. MJgATIQN.
The schools are still crowded and there is a
long waiting list of boys for admission. There were a
number of yacancies in the teaching staff at the begin
ning of the year and attempts were made to obtain more
trained teachers from Egypt, Syria, and the Lebanon.
They were especially successful in Egypt, the Egyptian
Ministry of Education agreeing to the secondment of 26
teachers to the Bahrain Government Education Department.
This mission includes a number of senior and experienced
teachers* some of whom have received a teacher’s train
ing at British Universities. The Bahrain Government
have also been recruiting more pupils for their teachers
training class which was begun in 1947. Nine pupils
were recruited during the year making a total of eighteen.
the girls* schools, this being the first time that girls
have drilled in public.
main fodder crop, were very high throughout the year.
More land was put under cultivation at the Government
experimental farm at Budelya and the agriculturist in
charge was sent to Iraq to buy seeds and fruit trees for
the farm,xf®rxsome of the Shaikhs, and other owners of
gardens.
ing some of the open land on the island and has asked
the Bahrein Petroleum Company for an opinion of the
possibility of supplying enough water to irrigate an
area of 100 acres. The Company replied that there
were many areas where new cultivation could be under
taken without overtaxing the existing supplies of water
provided it was done in accordance with a proper water
conservation scheme.
that the Government should set up a department to en
sure that there is proper conservation of the island’s
water supply. The
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, together with the
Adviser to the Bahrain Government and the General
Manager of the Company, subsequently took the oppoit unity
after the particularly uneconomical drilling of a well
by one of the A1 Khalifah to press on the Shaikh the
setting up of a proper water conservation committee,
containing one or two geological experts from the
Company, which would examine all applications for the
drilling of new wells. This Committee has been set
up and is functioning successfully.
During the year a drill display was held by
No. of
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schools in existence on 1-1-1948
opened during 1948.
closed *' 1948.
16
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students on 1- 1- 1948
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3. AGRICULTUM.
The prices of vegetables and lucerne, the
The Government is also interested in develop-
4. WATER CQNSFRVATIQN .
The Bahrain Petroleum Company also suggested
6. MUNICIPAL I£I.Eg>
Work or* metalling the roads in Manamah has
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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the 1948 Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , as well as the reports themselves.
The correspondence is between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and representatives of institutions active in Bahrain that provide reports and statistics for the annual report. These include: Medical Department of the Government of Bahrain; British Postal Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ; American Mission Hospital; Eastern Bank Limited; Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO); Customs Department of the Government of Bahrain; Victoria Memorial Hospital; British Overseas Airways Corporation; Petroleum Concessions Limited; Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Sir Charles Belgrave); Imperial Bank of Iran; and Gray, Mackenzie & Co Limited. The Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. report (folios 116-129) is submitted to the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. by the Political Officer at Sharjah. Both final reports are then submitted by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain to the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bahrain.
The final report (folios 123-148), which includes the final, summarised version of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Report, is made up of numbered sections, as follows: 1. Al Khalifa; 2. Education; 3. Agriculture; 4. Water Conservation; 5. Municipalities; 6. Public Works; 7. Electricity Department; 8. Telephone Department; 9. Transport Department; 10. Pearling; 11. Customs; 12. Food Control; 13. Shipping; 14. Post Office; 15. Administration of Justice; 16. Police; 17. Economic; 18. Medical; 19. Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited; 20. Petroleum Concessions Limited; 21. Cable and Wireless Limited; 22. British Overseas Airways Corporation; 23. Royal Navy; 24. United States Navy; 25. Royal Air Force; 26. US Consul, Dhahran; 27. Visitors; 28. Bahrain and Palestine; 29. Bahrain and Persia; 30. Items of Interest; 31. Weather; 32. Qatar; 33. Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Some sections are further divided into parts assigned either a lower case Roman numeral (iv, for example) or a lower case letter of the alphabet (d, for example). Several of these parts also come under a sub-heading.
Folios 159-60 are internal office notes.
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- 1 file (159 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 161; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional typed foliation sequence is also present between ff 40-88; these numbers are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- Title
- 'File 8/8 VII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1948'
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- front, front-i, 2r:15v, 24r:24v, 32r:37v, 110r:113v, 115r:160v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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