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his wife whom he had recently divorced* The man is a Zanzibari
and is due to come up for trial before the Political Agent.
(vii) Crime - and Punishment :
On the 9th the Agency Court fined Mr.Leslie Noel
Fentonj the Manager of the Royal Naval Canteen at Jufair the sum
of Rs.25/- for giving a bottle of beer to a Bahraini taxi driver.
As this is Mr.Fenton's second conviction for an offence of this
nature he was warned that he was in danger of imprisonment if he
was again convicted of giving alcohol to a Bahraini* The taxi
driver, who was tried by the Bahrain Court for drinking the beer,
received a sentence of eight months rigorous imprisonment and a
fine of one thousand rupees.
On the 7th April Abdullah Bangoor, Iraqi caretaker
of the Royal Naval Establishment at Jufair, who isn.iquor permit
holder .spent a convivial evening with three prostitutes and some
of his friends. On the 8th May the only Bahraini present, a clerk
in the office of the Judicial Assistant to the Political Agent,
was sentenced to two months rigorous imprisonment by the Bahrain
-rs Court, No proper evidence that he was intoxicated or that he had
consumed liquor was produced in court, sentence being pro
nounced, according to the latest issue of the Bahrain Government
Gazette, "as an example to public morality ,, .
(viii) Police Activities :
As a result of the offences reported above and
in paragrapg 69(vi) of Intelligence Summary No.8, there has been
a marked increase in police activity. At Jufair visiting taxi
drivers are closely watched; in Manama the ’Naturs 1 (or night
watchmen) challenge the late wayfarer and subject him to a
lengthy interogation; and in Muharraq the drivers of taxis
which are found parked in any place except the Muharraq taxi
stand receive a police summons. It is also reported that taxi
drivers who are caught conveying a foreigner to the house of a
prostitute are to receive a sentence of six months rigorous
imprisonment.
(ix) New Building Projects?
The growth and prosperity of Bahrain is
reflected in the many new buildings recently built or under
construction. Messrs. Gray Mackenzie & Co,Ltd., Petroleum
Concessions Ltd., and Cable & Wireless Ltd., have recently
built new residential quarters for their staff a few miles
outside Manama town. In the town itself the new automatice
telephone exchange was recently completed (see paragraph 44 of
Intelligence Summary No.5), a large new building which is to
house both the B.O.A.C. staff and their new offices is being
built, and Messrs. Holloway Brothers have started work on new
premises for the Imperial Bank of Iran. Work has also begun on
the new Residency buildings at Jufair. Nor is the Bahrain
Government behind hand in these new constructions. New lamp
standards are arising in al" 1 . magnificence of fresh paint
and light globes, new squares are being marked out and sown with
grass (alas, already withering) a Government ’’Coffee Shop” has
been built outside Manama town, and, the culmination of months
ouilding activity on the square fronting Manama pier, a large
and Imposing office block for the Bahrain Government is almost
ready for occupation.
(x) Reference paragraph 52(i) of Intelligence Summary
No.6.
On the 28th Shaikh Mohamed bin Isa al Khalifah,
accompanied by his son Shaikh Salman, returned from the United