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A statement showing Highest Maximum, Lowest Minimum, Average
Maximum, Average Minimum temperatures and total rainfall during
the year 1928.
Highest
Maximum.
Lowest
Minimum.
Average
Maximum.
Average
Minimum.
Rainfall.
r "
January 1928
791
49-0
88-3
67-3
•18
February „ ....
85-2
45-5
71-4
57*2
,...
March „ ....
897
51-5
74-5
631
•15
April „ ....
1027
62-2
91-9
73-6
...
May „ ....
108-0
680
96-0
79-1
June „ ....
1057
74-8
97-5
84-3
....
110-2
78-1
101-5
86-9
Auguat „ ....
110 9
75-4
101-5
84-4
...
September „ ....
101-9
781
98-4
82-2
• ••
October ,, ....
98-7
67-4
911
76-2
• •«
November „ ....
93-8
610
78'2
701
2-78
December „ ....
81-5
512
71-0
58-1
78
Total rainfall during the year 3-87 inches.
CHAPTER X.
Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for the year 1928.
Personnel
Lieutenant-(yolonel J. C. More, D.S.O., held charge of the Political
Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. throughout the year.
• ® ur g eon A. L. Greenway, M R.C.S., L.R.C.P., was
e( ^ 1 . ca ^ Lbarge of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and Charitable Dispensary, and performed
the duties of Quarantine Medical Officer throughout the year.
The Ruling Family.
Shaikh ’Ali as-Salim, the second son of the late Ruler, was killed in
an action against Mutair raiders at Riqa’i on the 28th January.
In the same engagement Shaikh ’Ali al-Khalffah, the Ruler’s second
cousin was very severely wounded, and was not finally discharged from
Hospital until the 9th August. 8
His Excellency Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah, C.I.E., Ruler of
Kuwait, visited Bahrain by air on the 31st August in an Imperial Airways
aeroplane chartered for the journey by a pearl merchant, and returned the
o owing morning. His uncle, Shaikh Hamad al-Mubarak, officiated for
him during his absence
,i J 11 , had existed for some time between Shaikh Subdh an-Nasir,
the Ruler s cousin, and his younger brother Shaikh ’Abdullah, a boy of
i?- an l e t0 a ? ea< ? in the be g innin g of December when
1 p tlmncrh ^ 111 n h b ?h iectm ^ t0 hl ® brother disposing of an old car which
Wh Sh °E ' haVe glVen t0 him ’ tunk {t forcibl y ^om its new owner,
shaikh K.ubah, who was out in camp at the time, wrote a letter to the Ruler