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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)' [295v] (40/72)
The record is made up of 1 volume (35 folios). It was created in 1944. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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36
Staff.
At the end of the second-year 1361-2 the then senior Woodwork Instructor, Bashir
Abu Ghazaleh, resigned after 7 years' service. It has not yet been possible to replace him. His
colleague in the Woodwork Department is not so well qualified to teach, or to manage the contract
work in the shop. A large part of the work in this Department has therefore been undertaken by the
Principal.
Two other Syrian teachers have remained on the staff, one, previously mentioned, taking a
large share in the general organisation and doing much of the class teaching (mechanics, drawing and
technical subjects). The other is less versatile, but his work in the Engineering Shop has been
satisfactory under the severe limitations imposed on him.
The English teacher, a local man, has worked willingly but he is not a skilful teacher, producing
rather poor results. Three ' Workman-Instructors' are employed in the shops, and although they do
not give regular lessons they are of great assistance in supervising workshop practice.
Since the beginning of the school-year 1362-3 (September 1943) the Principal has tutored four
senior students who have undertaken a third year of study. The time devoted to this work would
have been spent more economically had the class been larger. It may here be noted that in poin
of numbers the economic basis of the whole establishment is unsound. The anomaly of the position
is that with only 55 pupils, divided into 5 classes of widely varying size and standard, the staff of 5
(including the Principal) is overworked. If the number of pupils were doubled, the classification
remaining the same, the work could be carried out very conveniently with a staff of six, thus reducing
appreciably the cost of education per head of the need for continuity of the scheme through a period of
extraordinary difficulty.
Scheme of Training.
The principal change in the organisation of the school work has been the
institution, as mentioned above, of a ' Preparatory Year ' for boys below the age at which
students were formerly entered. Even with the three-year course which this system indicates, it is
to be understood that Technical School training cannot be equivalent to full trade apprenticeship
where that is possible. Ideally apprenticeship and school training are complementary, the school
providing educational background and regulated manual training while the commercial workshop
extends the range of trade experience. Without the co-operation of progressive industry the Technical
School cannot be of maximum service to the community. Reference has already been made to existing
difficulties in the matter of apprenticeship in the oil industry and elsewhere. It is intended to retain
the present scheme of school training in anticipation of improved industrial conditions after the war.
The cutting off of all supplies of material has still further limited the scope of school workshop
practice. Metal-work has survived only by the use of a limited assortment of scrap metal. Some
timber purchased before local stocks were exhausted has made it possible to continue woodwork
contracts and during the year some good pieces of work have been executed.
MINORS' DEPARTMENT.
During the year the Department took over the administration of eighteen new estates and dealt
in transactions which amounted to over 3^
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
. The assets of one of the estate cases was
over one
lakh
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
and in another there were over seventy different leases to be dealt with.
Collection of rents from over 450 properties amounted to Rs. 32,000, more than double the sum
which was received in 1361. The department continued to lend money to the public, on interest,
secured by mortgages of gold or title deeds of property. During the year Rs. 1 ,43,000 was advanced
and Rs. 60,000 was repaid.
Ten properties were sold during the year. It is the policy of the committee to avoid selling
property unless no other course is open but occasionally the income of the estate is insufficient for the
necessary upkeep of part of the property. Six houses and six shops were bought by the department
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This volume is the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the year 1362 AH (1943) and gives the details of the Revenue and Expenditure of the Bahrain State and contains notes on the activities of the various Government departments, as well as the budget 1363 and some particulars of importance which took place in Bahrain during the year. It includes text, photographic images, graphs and tables. The report appears to be compiled from reports from various Government departments and officials. An Index appears on folio 278r, followed by a General Review by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (folio 279).
The contents are divided into the following sections and sub-sections:
- Budget 1362 (folios 280r-281v): Revenue, Expenditure, Summary of Revenue and Expenditure for year 1362, and Statement of Revenue and Expenditure for year 1362;
- The Diving Industry (folios 282r-282v);
- Police and Public Security (folios 282v-284v): Strength, Duties, Uniform and Equipment, Rations, Police Pay, Jail, Crime, List of Police Prosecutions in the Bahrain Courts 1362, and List of Police Prosecutions in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Court 1362;
- Public Health, report by Dr R H B Snow, State Medical Officer (folios 285r-290r): Bahrain Government Hospital (Male Statistics 1943, Short Notes on Statistics, Chief Out-Patients Diseases, Predominating Out-Patients' Diseases (Men), Male In-Patients, Male In-Patients, Bahrain Government Isolation Hospital, Total Male In-Patients, Results of Treatment, Major Operations, Minor Operations, Injections, Laboratory and X-Ray Statistics, Bahrain Government Dispensaries, and Comparative Incidence of Predominating Diseases Hospital and Outlaying Dispensaries), Women's Hospital and Dispensaries report by Dr I M A Doeg, Lady Medical Officer (In-Patients Diseases Treated, Out-Patients Treated, Details of Obstetric Cases, Operations, Women's Dispensaries, Summary of Diseases Treated, Medical Work in the Girls Schools), and Matron's Report;
- Land Registration Department (folio 290r-290v);
- Judicial (folio 290v): Bahrain Courts;
- Municipalities (folios 290v-291v): Manamah Municipality and Muharraq Municipality;
- Wakf [Waqf] Department (folio 291v);
- Education (folios 291v-295v): Boys' Schools report by F J Wakelin, Director of Education (School Statistics, Staff, The Secondary School, The Hostel, Village Schools, English Teaching, Medical, Equipment, British Council Assistance, Public Library, Clubs, School Plays, Games, Recruitment by the Oil Company, and Finance), Girls' School, and The Technical School report by Mr G E Hutchings, Principal (Students, Staff, and Scheme of Training);
- Minors Department (folios 295v-296r);
- Agriculture (folio 296r);
- Passport Department (folio 296r-296v);
- Food Control (folios 296v-297v);
- State Engineer's Department, report by Mr W B Steele, State Engineer (folios 298r-302r): Statement of Energy generated, sold, etc., Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Load and Revenue Curve 1361, and Load and Revenue Curve 1362;
- Oil Gauging (folios 303r-304r): Graph showing Field Production and Crude Oil Imports 1942 and Graph showing Field Production and Crude Oil Imports 1943;
- Customs Department, report by Mr G W R Smith, Director of Customs and Port Officer (folios 305r-308r);
- General (folio 308r): Investiture, Presentation of Guns, Distinguished Visitors (including Lord Wavell, the Viceroy Designate, Lord Linlithgow, Governor-General and Viceroy of India, Amirs Khalid and Mahomed [Muḥammad], sons of His Majesty King Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]), Customs Directorate, Poor Relief Measures, Race Meeting, Sunni Kadhis [qādis], Obituary of Shaikh Mohamed bin Ali Al Khalifah [Muḥammad bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah];
- Note on Budget 1363 (folios 309r-310r);
- Budget 1363 (f. 308r).
Illustrations appear on one folio and they are labelled as follows:
- Folio 283: 'Jail and Police quarters, Juda Island'.
On folio 310r there is an inscription that reads 'The Times of India Press, Bombay'. Handwritten annotations and corrections are present (for example, folio 305r).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (35 folios)
- Arrangement
This file contains an index (folio 278r) which references pages of the report.
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Foliation: Folios 276-311.
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- 'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)'
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- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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