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'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company' [202r] (413/570)
The record is made up of 1 file (281 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1936-4 Oct 1939. 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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Yn© <t j t8i* wlshdD tlmt h® coijJLd see more Kuwaiti.® %*p/-
ia skilled jobs but t^®y cannot get the necessary skill without
training. At present there aeeias to be little attempt being
mad© by the young iaen of the town to obtain the necessary
training which in moat cases necessitates going abroad for
tiae to some place where they can get it. It should be
laentioned here that a smattering of knowledge of a job is worse
than useless, it only results in being employed for a short
ti»e, being found out, and then being discharged as incompetent*
As regards 2nd class jobs the first requisite is a
better standard of education, particularly in speaking and
writing English and in mathematics. After this, special
training for the actual job tlat a man decides to try to take
up, xauct be undertaken.
I append a list of the various types of Jobs in
which vacancies may reasonably be e^pectod* Training In the
more skilled of these will take as much as five years.
It is essential if the Kuwaitis arc to take a full
part in the skilled and technical Jobs of the Company, that
fathers send their sons away and get them trained.
Kuwait.
21st my,I9g8
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- Content
This file contains correspondence and documentation relating to the initiation of oil operations in Kuwait by the Kuwait Oil Company. The majority of the papers relate to operational matters from workers contracts, buoying and navigation, to plans for the construction of refineries.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (281 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 283; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 6-278; these numbers are also written in pencil but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/5/249
- Title
- 'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 20r:24v, 29r:29v, 31r:37v, 40r:57v, 69r:70v, 72r:78v, 80r:85v, 87r:90v, 92r:95v, 99r:99v, 102r:105v, 107r:109v, 125r:131v, 135r:135v, 137r:140v, 142r:149v, 151r:154v, 156r:158r, 158r, 159v, 159v:180v, 197r:198v, 200r:214v, 217r:244v, 246r:255v, 258r:258v, 263r:272v, 275r:275v, 277r:282v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence