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(iv) Few serious crimes occurred durinr.. ^ i
murder was tried. A number of nrosemtivS th 7 ar a f d 1 0Aly one case of
offences against the liquor and drug regulationr^On^ by i th 5 Police for '
thousands of rupees was captured during several ra^ds™ ^ Ued at S6Veral
Chief I^ieal^^rei^ative^^OTTCMded^on^lea”t^ l M ' Russe11 -
relieved by Mr. G. W E Smfth " ° n the lst A P nl and was
(ii) Mr. F A. Davies acted as Fields Manager till the 12th October
Ti E^sidentVana 0 ^. 186 * ^ E ’ A ' Skil “ er ' with the designation
(iii) Towards the end of the year the Company decided to erect a
rennery m .Bahrain and large consignments of material were received and
extra staff engaged for the construction work. The Company hopes to have
the refinery completed by the middle of 1936.
(iv) 176,388 tons of crude oil were shipped from Bahrain during the
year in fifteen tankships of various nationalities (5 American, 6 Norwegian,
1 Danish and 3 British) and the total royalty due to the State amounted
to Rs. 6,18,192-10-5. The net amount received by the State after deducting
the last instalment of a loan given by the Company in 1934 was
Rs. 5,68,192-10-5.
(v) On the 31st December the Company’s employees by nationalities
numbered :—
Americans . .....
49
European British subjects . . .
26
Indian British subjects ....
61
Bahrainis ......
. 1,283
Others (Iranians, ’ Iraqis, Kuwaitis, etc.)
. 244
[n addition to the above 29 watchmen were provided by the Bahrain
Grovernment.
7. Artesian Wells .—Efforts are being made to prevent artesian water
jemg allowed to escape uncontrolled, but the overflow from the wells still
adds to the difficulties of dealing with malaria.
8 A aviculture —(i) An experiment was made by the Bahrain firm of
Messrs A and M Yatim, with the assistance of an nd 1 an | agriculturist
o cultivate tobacco Towards the end of the year Shaikh Abdullah bin
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cultivate tobacco and fuel w o °d , an q levelling and drilled
Budaiya’ and imported^ agriculturist proved
leveral artesian welR -.T“ f early to sL how the experiments will turn out.
unsatisfactory and it is too e y > Limited engaged a ‘landscape
(ii) The Bahrain Petroleum Lid^sardens at the site of their new
gardener’ to lay down parks aven f- ater present great difficulties.
9. Customs. —(i) The cu during the previous year. Of this
iompared with Es. 6 , 11,8 co t jj e mainland amounted to Es.
imount transit dhty on shipmen Sy^ collected during the previous year.
(4,455-0-0 as compared witn m ■ ’ >Alans implementing the agree-
(ii) The Bahrain G. overa ?“®“ held i in March and April betw^n Bahrain
nent arrived at durmg discu T!le >^i a ns informed the public :
ind Sa’udi Arabian d le 0 for tlie mainland which was
(a) that the transit duty on^ca ^ ^ pgr ^ lMiorgm i nste ad of
transhipped at hitherto charged,
2 i per cent, adv ^ & ^ cent ^ mlorem on the
^"currenfmarket price in Bahrain.