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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [156r] (324/414)
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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year under review, and the Bahrain Government had again
to spend a large sum of money, Rs.10,600,000 in purchasing
essential foodstuffs.
The monthly cereal ration was maintained at last
year's level, varying in composition, however, according
to the stocks in hand. More rice was available than in
1945 because the Government was able to obtain supplies
of Persian rice at regular intervals.
The cloth rationing system was successfully
maintained and cloth was issued to the villagers twice
in the year and to the towns of Manama and Muharraq five
times in the year. (The reason for this differentiation
is not known). There is, however, an extreme shortage of
white longcloth and whijre mulls for summer wear.
During the second half of the period under review
consumer goods began to arrive from the united Kingdorn^in
increasing quantities. It is hoped to relax price control
on as many articles as possible in 1947. It has already
been removed from luxury articles. The re-export from
Bahrain of more goods was allowed to encourage trade.
Black-market operators were active but several
of the racketeers were fined and imprisoned. This has
had a deterrent effect and one result has been that many
more people have applied for ration cards.
There was still no sign of any downward trend in
prices in 1946.
13. SHIPPING .
The following is a statement of ships that
called during the year 1946:-
British 256
American 199
Norwegian 40
Dutch 25
panamerican 20
Swedish 10
Danish 7
Italian 6
Canadian 3
566
The total imports for the year amounted to
51,825 tons and exports to 192,375 tons of which 184,908
tons were petroleum coke.
14. AGCJnRNTS WITHIN POR T LIMITS.
On the 9th February, 1946, a foreign
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
bound
for the port of Doha with a cargo of 400 gallas Ox dates
and 12 tins of date Juice sank north of Muharraq. All
the cargo was lost and the craft became a wreck. On the
same day a Persian vessel was wrecked at Sayeh near
Fasht al Adham. The cargo was lost but the crew was saved.
/On the 29th
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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