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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [154r] (320/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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prices for lucerne, dates, and vegetables.
6. MUNICIPALITIES .
No public work of major importance was carried
out this year,the work of the Municipalities being
restricted as in 1945 to town cleaning, the widening
and re-surfacing of roads, and co-operating with the
Food Control Department in the rationing of foodstuffs.
7. PUBLIC WORKS .
Six rooms and several garages were added to the
Manama Palace. Four houses for married teachers were
constructed at the eastern end of the Manama primary
School playing ground. A new European private ward was
added to the State Hospital and an additional private
ward built on the ground floor.
The creek on the western side of the customs pier
has been filled^pand a beginning made with laying the
foundations of the new Customs Sheds. The old import
shed which is situated in the market is to be dismantled
and the site used for shops.
As an experimental measure a stretch of metalled
road was constructed from Manama to the Municipal boundary
to overcome the excessive moisture which is the cause of
many road accidents.
The Bahrain Government have contracted with
Messrs. Holloway Brothers for the installation of a
town water supply in Manama. Water will be distributed
through a ring-main round Manama feeding a sub-main with
extensions to private consumers, public wash-houses, and
street hydrants. The pumping plant, consisting of three
sets of pumps and storage tanks, will be located in the
Municipal Garden where there is a good supply of water.
Two new artesian wells are being sunk in the garden. The
scheme provides for the erection of a pump house and water
storage tanks, and the laying of over 16 miles of asbestos
cement piping. It will cost approximately £64,000 and it
is estimated will take at least 18 months to complete.
8. ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT .
(i) New Installations .
The installation of the new 206 KW generating set
which arrived at the end of 1945 was completed in April.
The Shaikh officially set it working. It operated at 90^
of its capacity for long periods throughout the year. It
has been run on an open circuit owing to the difficulty
in obtaining equipment for a closed circuit cooling system,
resulting in a daily distilled water consumption of 1,400
gallons instead of the 90 gallons that would be used in a
closed circuit. As this water had to be brought by road-
tanker from jufair it added considerably to generating costs.
(ii) Extension to the power Supply .
During the year connection was given to a new B.O.A.C.
100 KW sub- station, new stores and machine tool workshops,
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
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- 1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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