'File 19/176 III (C 51) Bahrain Finances' [‎150r] (315/687)

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This year,^1651^is the second one in which the
export t9 Bahrai ipersie of grain in bulk has failed.
It is said that trTe reason for this was the lack of
rain in ^rsia dnd possibly the customs restrictions
there upon exports; but the export thence of sheep
and goats to this State still continues, though not
in so large a quantity as formerly. The collactions
upon live-stock for the year 1350 .were h 2,463/- but
m 1251 these amounte to E 1,952/- only.
In the year 1350, 1571 native craft visited this
port of which 633 came from Persia; while in 1351,
1573 native craft came hare of which only 445 were
from Persia. The export trade in tea and sugar has
correspondingly languished; and in this trade a steady
gart was taken by the big sailing motor craft of the
ohaikh of Tibben, which plied regularly between that
port and Bahrain. Unfortunately for the Shaikh,
during last fta^e? winter his craft was burnt at sea
and became a totsl loss, and it has not yet been
replaced.
itsmther check to this export trade was re^miiy
given by tliS>?»|)du^^on the high seas of^a-^ttrfain
motor craft, whicuw^t^su^Qc^jyj^^^ patrols
of smuggling goods andj^iJsS*^^ Persia;' and
I have hearatl^i T -%te^captured crewwSr^kauged in
d e t ail ious sea ports between Bushir^Tmd
In place of the Persian wheat, there has come
forward a steadily increasing Quantity of wheat from
Iraq, which is cheaper than Indian rough wheat, and
consequently the import of this latter coamodixy has
also ceased.
Of the 1,573 native craft which visited t:ds
port last year.-
50 craft came from Kuwait
196 ^ Iraq
47 " India
16 f? Africa
140 Oman
679 " Arabian mainland
445 ^ from Persia.
Local craft . At the en of the year 1351, there were
register in Bahrain 1,217 sailing craft and 63 motor
launches. This figure includes 458 sailing craft
registered for oeariing most of which are expected to
go out this season, though there have been a number
of sales of craft to foreign ports since the last
Uuffal. The boat-building industry is languishing
lor want of orders for new craft* and thin is to be
expected after several poor nearling seasons. In
1342 there were 617 craft registered for pearling.
for last year's uearling season 275 local craft
were registered as working oh the ^Khammos" system;
and the majority of these did not pay their license
dues before the Rakbah, but were permitted by the
Deputy Ruler to give "sanad" for payment of the dues
after several iourneys out to the banks; two journeys
were in fact stipulated, but the licensees interxxreted
this to mean that they might pay as