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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1358 (February1939 - February 1940)' [145v] (48/86)
The record is made up of 1 volume (42 folios). It was created in 1940. 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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bridge was necessary. The bridge consists of a swing span with two clear openings
of 50 feet and two approach spans of 35 feet. A roadway ten feet wide with two
five feet wide footways is provided. The roadway on the bridge is designed to carry
a super imposed line load of a continuous string of lorries or buses having a maxi
mum loaded weight of 8 tons each. The footways will carry a superimposed weight
of 112 lbs per square foot.
The swing span is to be electrically operated from a control cabin at one end
of the causeway. The electrical machinery will be housed in a chamber inside
the central pier. An important feature of the bridge is the centre dolphin of
reinforced concrete, with vertical fenders extending from the centre pier, thirty-four
feet on each side, at right angles to the bridge. This is required to prevent boats
being dashed against the bridge when the tide is running strongly. The current in
the channel was always strong but since the gap has been narrowed by the extension
of the caiiFeway on each side the current has become more powerful. All the steel
work, electrical equipment and machinery, etc., are of British manufacture.
The contract price is £28,291 and there is a clause provided for certain
eventualities arising fiom war conditions. The work is to be completed within one
year from the date on which operations were commenced but it is possible, provided
that present conditions continue, that the bridge will be finished some months before
the specified time.
r l he work on the bridge was started in December but during the year the two
ends of the causeway were extended leaving in the centre little more than the space
which will be occupied by the bridge. This work was done by the two municipalities.
The two end sections of the causeway were in deeper water than has been encoun
tered before and the cost of this was Ks. 61,376.
A toll will be levied on vehicles crossing the bridge. The details of charges
have not yet been decided but the revenue from this source is expected to be more
than sufficient to pay for the maintenance and upkeep of the bridge. According to
statistics, the daily number of persons crossing to and from Muharraq is 4004
and 47G motor vehicles go to the end of the causeway every day.
B. Manamah Pier Extension The pier extension was completed during the
first half of the year. Thb original plan was altered and the T piece at the end of
the pier was enlarged to 216' x 75'. The new part of the pier, which is 50 feet wide,
is 1,240 feet long. The length of the whole pier is now 675 yards.
There is no longer any need for passengers and cargo to be transhipped, at
low water, from launches or boats into small skiffs in order to reach the pier. The
largest dhows and launches can now come alongside the pier at all states of the
tide. The new pier has made it possible to land cargo without delay and has put an
end to the difficulty and inconvenience which passengers had to submit to in the
past.
The estimated cost of completing the pier extension was calculated for the
purpose of the 1358 budget on the basis of the cost of the section of the pier which had
been finished. It was found however that much of remainder, including the T piece,
was on a soft part of the sea bed and the quantity of rock needed for the construction
greatly exceeded the anticipated amount. This and the enlargement of the
terminal caused the cost to be greater than was expected.
The expenditure on this work was Ks. 1,01,588.
The whole of this amount, except masons' and foremen's wages and the cost
of the wooden beams bridging the water passages which were made at intervals of
200 feet along the pier, is the cost of stone. The stone was brought by local Arabs
in their own boats and thua employment was given to many hundreds of men for
several months in the year during the season when there was no diving.
In the past one of the customs charges was described as "pier fees". It was
originally levied in about 1918 to pay for the building of the pier which, it was then
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This volume is the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the year 1358 AH (1939-1940) and gives te 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 1359 and some particulars of importance which took place in Bahrain during the year. It includes text, photographic images and tables. The report appears to be compiled from reports from various Government departments and officials. An Index appears on folio 122r, followed by a General Review by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, dated April 1940 (folio 125r).
The contents are divided into the following sections and sub-sections:
- Budget 1358 (folios 126r-127v);
- Summary of Revenue and Expenditure 1358 (folio 128r);
- Statetment of Revenue and Expenditure 1358 (folio 128v);
- Notes on Revenue 1357 (folio 129r);
- Notes on Expenditure 1357 (folios 129r-130v): Allowances to Ruling Family, Adviserate, Customs Department, Judicial, Awkaf [Awqāf] and Minors Departments, Public Works Department, Land Department, Passport Department, Oil Gauging, Transport Department, Public Health, Education, Municipalities, Agriculture, Departmental expenses, Unforseen, Public Protection, Armaments, Transport, King [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] Ibn Sa'ud's visit, Food Supplies, and Public Works (Manamah-Muharraq Swing Bridge, Hospital Building, Manamah Pier extension, Pier Trolley Lines, Fort, Education Department, Transport Department, Passport Office, Miscellaneous, Mosque at Hawar, Kozabia House, Budeya Garden drainage, Annual Repairs, and Road Repairs);
- The Pearl Industry (folios 130v-131v): The Pearl Industry and Pearl Propaganda;
- Police and Public Security (folios 132r-133v): Police Administration (Strength, Recruitment, Routine, Defence Duties, Health of the Police, Infant Welfare Clinic, Mounted Sections, Machine Gun Section and Motor Bicycle Section, Buildings, Promotions and Appointments), Naturs, Traffic Control and Crime;
- Public Health (folios 133v-139r): Appointment of Staff, The Village Dispensaries, Health (Malaria, Eye disease, Ear diseases, Respiratory disease, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Venereal disease, Small-Pox, Alimentary diseases, Rheumatic disease, and Gynaecological and Obstetrical diseases), Medical examination of school children (Boys' Schools and Girls' Schools), Health of the Police (Infant Welfare Clinic and Prisoners' Health) and Malaria;
- Land Registration Department (folio 139r): Registrations, Iranian Property, Island Beacons, and Survey Students;
- Judicial (folio 139v): Bahrain Courts and Bahrain Small Courts;
- Municipalities (folio 140r): Anti-Malaria Measures, Widening and Constructing town roads, New Road, Water Cart, Road Metalling, Lease of Markets, Swamp Reclamation, and Miscellaneous;
- Wakf [Waqf] Department (folio 140v): Shia Wakf Department and Sunni Wakf Department;
- Education (folios 140v-141r): School Reforms and appointment of Director of Education, Technical Schools, and Female Education;
- Minors Department, (folios 141r-141v);
- Food Control, report by A C Byard (folios 142r-143v);
- King Ibn Sa'ud's Visit to Bahrain (folios 143v-145r);
- Passport Department (folios 145r);
- Public Works Department (folios 145r-148r): Recurrent Expenditure, Non-Recurrent Expenditure (Manamah Muharraq Causeway and Bridge, Manamah Pier Extension, State Hospital, Fort, Government Schools, Transport Building, Passport Office and Post Office, New entrance and stairs at Manamah Palace, and Hawar Mosque), Works not provided for in 1358 budget (Rifle Range, Jida Island, Idari Spring, Hedd Girls' School and Om Ashaoom Spring);
- General (folios 148r-148v): New Appointments, Local Newspaper and Cinema, H.H.'s visit to India, Press and Broadcast propaganda, Catholic Church, Government Rest House, Appointment of a Governmental Representative with the Oil Company, and Shaikh Mohomed bin Isa's [Muḥammad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] visit to New York;
- Electric Department (folios 148v-150): Electricity Department (Wiring Contracts, Temporary Wiring, Main Extensions, Alteration to Mains, and Air Conditioning), Government Telephone Department, Transport Department, Fire Department, Traffic Section, Government Technical School, New Government Hospital - Naim, Anti Malaria Campaign, Oil Royalty and other gauging, Muharraq Bridge, Financial Position, Electricity Charges, and Prospects for 1359;
- Profit and Loss Account (folio 151r).
- Revenue Account (folio 151v);
- Balance Sheet (folio 152r);
- Statement of Energy Sold (folio 152v);
- Customs Department, report by Mr C C L de Grenier, Director of Customs and Port Officer (folios 153rv-159r);
- Budget 1359 (folios 160r-161r);
- Notes on Estimated Revenue 1358 (folios 161v);
- Notes on Estimated Expenditure 1358: (folios 161v-162v).
Illustrations appear on four folios and they are labelled as follows:
- Folio 134: 'The Government Hospital, with labels Men’s wing in progress (left) and Women’s wing (right)';
- Folio 136: 'The Government Hospital: The Women’s Wing from the west';
- Folio 144: 'H.M. King Ibn Sa’ud inspecting the guard of honour, accompanied by H.H. Shaikh Hamad';
- Folio 147: 'H.M. King Ibn Sa’ud and H.H. Shaikh Hamad, on the palace’s new flight of steps'.
On the front cover there is an inscription that reads 'Printed at the Times Press, Basrah', as well as a note in pen that reads 'Confidential' (folio 122r).
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- 1 volume (42 folios)
- Arrangement
This file contains an index (folio 122r) which references pages of the report.
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Foliation: Folios 122-164.
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