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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎146r] (304/414)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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irksome visa regulations have remained unaltered. This
has caused quite an amount of resentment, especially since
the Kuwait G-overnment has placed no obstacles in the way of
Iraqis visiting Kuwait,
On a number of occasions the Iraqi frontier patrol
cars drove well inside Kuwait territory with the ostensible
purpose of preventing smuggling^contraband goods• These
incursions were naturally resented by the Shaikh,
yu date gardens ,
(a) iTAC a
Almost the entire date-crop was taken by the
tenants without surrendering his share to the Shaikh in
consequence of the sudden cancellation during the harvest by
a Basra Judge of the orders of attachment passed by him the
previous year. His Highness protested against this and
the matter has been taken up with the British Embassy at
Baghdad.
(b) ^ BA.^SEIYAH .
/the Iraq Government auctioned the 180 shares
lost by His Highness in litigation and the Shaikh purchased
them through Syed Hamid al Naqeeb, an Iraq subject, for
1,0, 8399.404/-.
The Shaikh's two lawyers, Sulaiman Faidhi and
Jamil Sadiq, resigned their appointment with effect from
the 15th December, 1946 as a protest at the perversions of
justice inflicted upon the Shaikh which they found them
selves powerless to combat,
VJII COST OB 1 LIVING.
The end of hostilities did not bring in^its wake
the anticipated drop in the general price level which
remained high right through the year. The daily wages of
an unskilled labourer inclusive of food are approximately
ps 7/- per day and a skilled worker^ e.g. a carpenter, can
command as high a wage as Ks S5/- per day. i?he sale of tea,
sugar and cloth at controlled rates prevented much hardship.
A comparative statement of the prices of main
commodities is attached as Appendix rt A' f .
ix. royal navy ,
H.M,S, "Wren" visited Kuwait on the 15th Decembere
x. royal air force .
The Royal Air Force withdrew their detachment
from Kuwait during the year. /
xi. KUWAIT' OIL COMPANY .
At the .beginning of the year, the Company was
en^a"ed on the work of installing pipelines, erecting tanks,
and commissioning wells drilled prior to recommencement of
operations. In April, four submarine pipelines were launchec
at Fahaheel and connected to the flow lines from four
gravity tanks constructed at Ahmadi. In June, the pumping
o" oil from the gathering centre constructed at Burgan to
tanks at Ahmadi was begun and on the 30th June, after His
Highness the Shaikh of Kuwait a had ceremonially opened a
valve at Fahaheel, a tanker began to load the first cargo
'of crude oil to be exported from Kuwait. The 30th of June
mflrked the completion of the effort put out by the Company
between the middle of 1945 and that date, but construction

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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.

The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.

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1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.

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