File 8/9 Annual Report on the State of Bahrain for the year AH 1351 [‎78r] (160/200)

This year, 1*351^,is the second
export to Sahrai37?ersia of grain ii
It is said that tne reason for this
ram m
Persia dnd possibly the cue
there upon exports; but tne export
:s to this State still conti
one in which^ the
in bulk has failed.
s was the lack of
customs restrictions
glltt thence of sheep
and goats to this State still continues, though npt
in so large a quantity as formerly. The collections
upon live-stock for tne year 1350 were Rs 2,468/- but
in 1351 these amounted to R$ 1,952/- only.
In the year 1350, 1571 native craft visited this
port of whicn 633 came from Persia; while in 1351,
1573 native craft came here of which only 445 were
from Persia. The export trade in tea and sugar has
correspondingly languished; and in this trade a steady*
part was taken by the big sailing motor craft of the
Shaikh of Tibben, which plied regularly between that
port and Bahrain. Unfortunately for the Shaikh,
during last winter his craft was burnt at sea
and became a total loss, and it has not yet been
replaced.
Another check to this export trade was recently
giv&i by the capture on the high seas^ of a BehxsLn
motor craft, which was suspected by the Persian patrols
of smuggling goods and passengers out of Persia;, and
I have heard that the captured crew were hanged m ]j
detail at the various sea ports between Bushire and^
Bunder Abbas.
In place of the Persian wheat, there has come
forward a steadily increasing ouanxity of wheat from
Iraq, which is cheaper than Indian rough wheat, and
consequently the import of this latter commodity has
also ceased.
Of the 1,573 native craft which visited this
port last year.-
50 craft
came
from Kuwait
196
n
Iraq
47
TT
India
16
rt
Africa
140
ft
Oman
679
rt
Arabian mainland
445
rt
from Persia.
Local craft. At the en - of the year 1351^ there .vere
regTsTe^m Bahrain 1,217 sailing craft and 63 motor
launches. This figure includes 458 sailing craft
registered for pearling most oi which are expectei
go^out this season, though there have been a number
of sales of craft to foreign ports since the last
The boat-building industry is .Languishing
T orders for new craft:^ and this is to be
iffal.
f or want of
seasons.
expected after several poor pearling
1342 there were 617 craft registered mr pearling.
For last year's pearling season 275 local craft
registered as working on the r K_aammos system,
and the majority of these did not pay their license
dues before the Rakbah, but were permitted by me
Deputy Ruler to give rT sanad Tt for payment of the dues
after" several journeys out to the banks; two journeys
Wl M fepensees interpreted
were