مجموعة ٥٢/٣٠(٣) "ملخصات استخباراتية عن البحرين ١٩٤٦" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٣] (٤٧٢/٢٤٧)

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about 50 of the local employees. The school is well
run although its object is not generally 'social uplift',
but to make the employees more useful to the Company.
266. AUTOMA TIC TELEPHONES .
Reference paragraph 228 of Intelligence
Summary No.17.
The Adviser to the Bahrain Government has
written to the Manager of Messrs, Cable and Wireless
and informed him that so long as the company insist on
maintaining those clauses in the subscribers' agreement
to which there has been objection neither His Highness
nor the other Arab subscribers are prepared to sign the
agreement.
The main point at issue seems to be that of
a high tariff with an unlimited number of calls to be
allowed each subscriber versus a low tariff with a limited
number of calls. The company maintain that a high tariff
would mean fewer subscribers but His Highness and the other
Arab subscribers do not agree with this view and want calls
to be unlimited.
267. B RITISH COUNCIL .
Some months ago, the British Council allocated
a small sum of money for subventions for local educational
organisations. After consulting the local educational
authorities, the British Council were asked to provide sets
of physiology and biology wall charts, travel association
posterw, and photographs and charts of British agriculture,
industry and commerce. These have recently been received
here and have been distributed to the schools concerned.
268 . 'WATER CONSURVAT I ON.
His Highness and the adviser to the Bahrain
Government have often expressed their concern at the great
wastage of water that tak-/..s place from the uneconomical
sinking of wells and have in several instances made this
the reason for holding up or refusing the sinking of new
wells by the Bahrain Petroleum Company, alleging that this
would result in the drying up of other wells in the vicinity.
The Company have now pointed out that they were recently
consulted by His Highness about the sinking of a new well
in the property of one of the A1 Khalifah and that though
they advised against it on the grounds that the property
could be easily supplied with water from other wells in
the area and that a new well would supply a quantity of
water far in excess of that required for the property,
His Highness insisted on the sinking of a new well. The
Political Agent is addressing the Shaikh on the matter
269. QATiiR .
Naim bin Wadiva.
Reference paragraph 236 of Intelligence
Summary No.17.
Saleh jr.l Mani' , Secretary to His Excellency
the Ruler of Qatar, (to whom the Political iigent spoke
when..