مجموعة ٥٢/٣٠(٣) "ملخصات استخباراتية عن البحرين ١٩٤٦" [و‎‎٧‎٥] (٤٧٢/١٤٩)

(ill) Boxing Competition .
On the night of the 28th, the Nadi-al-Bahrain
staged a boxing competition in the Muharraq premises of the club.
The first bout was between two small boys from the Muharraq
primary school, and Indian, Pakistani and Bahraini boxers
provided the contestants in the other six bouts. Care had
been taken in the appointments and lighting of the ring, the
contests were well conducted, and the programme was carried
through with a smoothness and despatch that is the more
creditable as it is the first time that a Bahraini club has
staged a boxing competition. His Highness Shaikh Salman,
His Excellency the Political Resident, Shaikh Abdulla bin Issa
al Khalifah, and Mr. R.Mc.C. Andrew^ Assistant Political 'Agent,
Bahrain, attended, and His Highness presented the medals given
to the winners. The club is reported to'have spent about
Rs, 1,500/- on staging the competition but hopes to recover this
sum and make a small profit from the tickets sold and the
subscriptions both given and promised by Club Members and His
Highness and others of the al Khalifa family.
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(iv) Handicrafts Exhibition .
The annual handicrafts exhibition which was held
this year on the 29th and 30th of April was on a more ambitious
scale than in former years. All the Government schools
participated, and to the usual displays of needlework, furni
ture-making and machine work were added those of painting and
caligraphy; toy-making, book-binding, and model-making; the
manufacture of fruit cordials, soap, cosmetics, and confectio
nery; and flowers and vegetables grown by the pupils. There
was a large attendance at the exhibition, among those who
visited it being His Highness Shaikh Salman, Shaikh Abdullah
bin Isa al Khalifa, who Is the Bahrain Education Minister,
Mr.Russell Brown, General Manager of the Bahrein Petroleum
Company, Mr.A.L.A.Dredge, M.B.E., 1st Secretary of the
Political Residency, Bahrain, and Mrs.Dredge, and Mr. C.D.
Belgrave, C.B.E., Adviser to the Bahrain Government and
Mrs. Belgrave.
(v) Ice Factories .
The only ice factory in Bahrain which sells
ice to the general public is owned by Husain Yateem, a
purchasing agent and local contractor of the Bahrein
Petroleum Company. The virtual monoply which Mr.Yateem
enjoys is, however, soon to be broken as a new ice factory
is being built for Abdur Rahman al Gosaibi, the machinery ^
for which recently arrived in Bahrain, and two other
Bahrain merchants have ordered plants for ice factories.
One of them, Hussain Ahme.i, is providing his ice factory
with ample cold storage accommodation. The manufacture and
sale of ice is a profitable industry in Bahrain though it
has to be seen whether there is enough business for four ice
factories. It has been estimated that Husain Yateem is
receiving a net profit of around Rs.2,000/- a month for his
ice factory. This figure has been calculated from the
controlled price obtaining for ice and should be considerably
larger in fact for Mr.Yateem is known to sell much of his
daily output of ice on the black market. He is not unaware
of what dangers lie in competition, and has prepared against
them by importing another ice plant and by engaging an
Italian Engineer as his refrigeration expert.
(vi) Crim e.
Arising out of an altercation between some
Bapco watchmen at one of the gates of the company's camp at
Awali and an Arab employee whom they suspected of stealing
Company property, an onlooker who intervened was it is alleged