مجموعة ٩/٣٠(٢) "تقارير إدارية عن الخليج الفارسي - ١٩٤٥ -" [و‎‎٤‎٧‎٠] (١١٤٨/٩٣٩)

The Pol5ce Force carried out its usual training
throughout the year.
As » defence measure,, mounted patrols were carried
out during the year by the camel and horse sections of the
State Police, thus reducing to a minimum the opportunities
of unauthorised persons to enter the island.
The state of public security continued to be satis
factory. No serious crimes came to notice during the year
and the decrease in traffic accidents continued.
5. Agriculture
An agricultural expert was obtained from Egypt and
a committee y/ps set up to discuss methods of improving agri
culture in Bahrain.
There has been a tendency among local gardeners to
grow a wider range of vegetables. European vegetables were
grown in the experiment?! gerden at ^udeye, but this did not
prove to be 9 profitable undertaking, owing to the small
number of people who consume th^ju. The date crop was un
usually good during the year and, owing to the great amount
of rain in 1939, grazing was good end lasted well into the
summer.
While they were drilling structure holes for geologi
cal information, the Bahaain Petroleum Company discovered
that there was a danger of artesian wells failing owing to
the excessive use of existing supplies of water. The Bahrain
Government immediately took steps to control water consump
tion by prohibiting the boring of artesian wells without per
mission of the Government and by ordering that the flow of
water from existing wells should be regulated by valves.
6. Mmicipalitles
(1) Manamah
Progress was made in the constructions of new roads.
^n important new rood was built from the Government Hospital
to /■