مجموعة ٩/٣٠(٢) "تقارير إدارية عن الخليج الفارسي - ١٩٤٥ -" [و‎‎١‎٨‎٣] (١١٤٨/٣٦٥)

21 .
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days in Bahrain enrouce from Jcdda to His Majesty King
Abdul Aftls's camp near Riyadh*
(ill) dh&lkh Hazza bin dultan a younger brother of the
Shaikh of Abu Dhabi visited Bahrain from the 29th April
to the 5 t h of ^june.
(iv) Shaikh Jum^ bin liaktum a younger brother of the
Shaikh of Dubai accompanied by numerous relatives paid
a short visit to Bahrain in the month of May*
(v) Shaikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thaniof Qatar paid two
visits to Bahrain approximating a total period of stay of
five months during which he underwent prolonged treatment
for a septic condition of the Jaw*
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(i) The Merchants Advisory Committee which was Introduced
in 1943 has functioned throughout the year with very con
siderable success*
(ii) In order to attempt to control rapidly rising rents
a Re nt Control Order was promulgated in eonsultavion with
the Bahrain Government early in the year which provided for
by
the fixation of the percentage amount^which rents could be
increased, and contained regulations governing the circum
stances in which landlords could insist on the vacation of
premises by tenants*
(iii) No record of the events of the year would be complete
without some reference to the climate. The summer was one
of the mildest that has ever been known and was followed by
a winter strongly reminiscent of the English climate, cold
*lnds and drizzle interspaced with brief periods of sunshine
22* mxmis,
(i) Banking and Currency
The most important event in financial and business
circles during the year was the opening of a branch of the
Imperial Bank of Iran on the 16th of December* This branch
had not been open for a sufficient length of time to have
any very definite effect by the end of the year on the money
/market