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S nd Mr ‘ ^ a ? cls E : M6ll °y? United States Vice-Consul
at Dhahran, called on His Excellency the Political Resident.
Calls were also exchanged between the U.S.
Naval Officers and His Highness the Ruler of Bahrain.
UoS.S. M Siboney M left Bahrain on the 28th
^ugust and the U.S.S. ,, Carpellotti ,, on the 29th.
190. Bi..HR^ IN_ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT .
Summary ( No.ll? ferenCe paragraph 157 (ii) of Intelligence
. Electricity Department is now supplying
ciectricity for the Manager's residence in the new Automatic
hni'?t h w e «r XChane ^ ^ lldl ng and some of the new staff quarters
built by Messrs. Cable and Wireless and has promised to
supply sufficient electricity for the working of the automatic
squired. The supply of electricity for these
installations - as indeed to the public in general - is
conditional, however, upon the continuance in operation of
two generators whose overhaul has been postponed until the
thern h0t WQpther becau se there are no others to replace
q. . i 11 } The contract of Group Captain H.P.G. Leigh, the
State Engineer, is due to expire in September and the Bahrain
Government has been looking for a successor. Mr, Donald
Brammer, formerly of Petroleum Development (Qatar), Limited,
has been engaged as the new State Engineer. Mr. Brammer
recently left for the United Kingdom on short leave and
November Urn Bahrain " to bake U P appointment early in
AUTOM, f iTIC TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
. , , . TBe new automatic telephone system is due to come
into operation soon, some four years after Messrs. Cable and
I e i? SS flrst put forwar U proposals for its installation
and three years after their terms had been accepted by the
Bahrain Government. ^ Local merchants are now complaining
tBe rentals and some of the regulations bear'too hardly on
thu subscribers and there is talk of boycotting the new
system. ^
192, M ANnMA H VL.TER SUPPLY
. Messrs. Holloway Brothers are still at work on
tne installation of a water supply system for the town of
Manamah and there is no sign yet of their completing it.
n a notice dated the 20th November 1946, the Government of
Bahrain gave March, 1948, as the date on which they expected
the scheme to be completed.
1.93. LANDING,ARRAN GEMENTS .
x. _ Reference paragraph 156 of Intelligence Summary
On the 22nd His Highness Shaikh Salman presided
over a meeting of local merchants and representatives of
the landing companies to discuss a demand by Messrs. Gray,