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'File 8/8 II Annual Administration Report of The Bahrain Agency' [217r] (433/720)
The record is made up of 1 file (358 folios). It was created in 16 Jan 1941-15 Feb 1944. 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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that all oil and watar wall aquipmant and anoillary
plant was to ba ©vacuatad from 4 atar* Its daatination,
originally Basrah, waa eubaaquently changed to India*
The consignaant of aoaa 700 tons waa avantually shipped
out towards the and of Novembar undar arrangements by the
Army authorities*
4. DISPOSAL OF MISCSIXAKISOUS MACHIKSRY ,\KD ^TgRIALS
Closure of the Qatar camp was still delayed by
requests from the Royal Air Poree to purchase a consider*
able quantity of machinery and materials. It was some
time before definite requisitions were available from the
R.A.F. and it was not until mid-December that shipments
totalling some 300 tons were completed*
5. FINAL CLOSURE OF QATAR CAMP
By the SOth of December the Company, after final dis
cussions with the Ruler on the evacuation, reduced the
Qatar camp to a caretaker basis and all British, American
and Indian staff were removed. It is proposed during the
suspension period that a Company representative will visit
Qatar camp monthly, and the Manager will contact the
Ruler as circumstances direct and not less than once in
three months*
4. DISPOSAL Of STAFF
British and American staff were mainly absorbed by
Associated Companies* Indian employees have all been
provided with opportunities to join other oil companies,
and in no ease should experience any difficulty in finding
lucrative posts*
It was necessary, however, to dispense with the
services of Qatari employees consisting of drivers, a few
artisans and two or three hundred labourers* It is
believed that the drivers, artisans and semi-skilled
labourers are already migrating to Sharjah, Kuwait, etc.,
looking for employment. A few educated types directly or
indirectly employed by the Company are engaged in the
highly profitable business of buying and selling in war
time, based on Dubai*
7. CONDITIONS OF 3KRVICS - F&PLQYI^S. ;ATAR &. BAigAJN
(a) Special ^ergency Allowance
With effect from the 1st of March 1948, British
and American employees were granted a special emergency
allowance of £. 10 A par mensem.
From the let of April 1948, s similar type of
allowance was Issued to Indian and local staff* The
rates were fixed in agreement with other local
employers. Up to the end of 1948, it has not become
necessary to ehange the initial scale.
(b) In May 1948, the Company waa Informed that Defanca
Regulation No .8 of 1948 would be applicable to ell
the Company's employees in Qatar and Bahrain who were
British eubjecte or British protected persons. Under
this regulation such employees may not laave the
Company's employment without the consent of the
Political Residant or the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Bahrain*
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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Office, as well as the reports themselves.
Present within the file are the reports for the years 1940-43. Each Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. report contains a prose statement and sometimes statistics on all or most of the following subjects: Officers; Ruler of Bahrain and the Al Khalifa Family; Bahrain Police; Local Affairs; Bahrain Petroleum Company; Agriculture; Municipalities; Customs; Public Works; Electric Department; Pearling Industry; Boatbuilding and Shipping; British Interests; Post Office; Medical; Judicial; Visits of British Notables; Visits of Foreign Notables; Visits of Arab Notables; Qatar; Petroleum Concessions Limited; Foreign Interests; Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Fighter Fund; Accidents Within Port Limits; Education; Royal Air Force Levies; Economic; and Cable And Wireless Ltd. Each subject comes under its own sub-heading. Each report is signed by the officiating Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at the time of submission to 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. at Bushire.
Each report on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. contains information on all or most of the following subjects: Personnel; Trucial Shaikhs; British Interests; Tours; Aviation; Royal Navy; Shipping; Medical; Raids and Disturbances; Oil; The [Second World] War; Red Oxide; Pearling; Fighter Fund; Local Affairs; Royal Air Force Levies; Economics; Security; Population.
Preceding each report is correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and the institutions and offices that provided reports and statistics for the final Administration Report. These include: Charles Belgrave, Advisor to the Government of Bahrain; the Director of Customs and Port Officer; the Postmaster or sub-Postmaster of the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department; doctors and other employees of the American Mission Hospitals (men's and women's), the Victoria Memorial Hospital, and the Medical Department of the Bahrain Government; representatives of Bahrain Petroleum Company and Petroleum Concessions Ltd; the Political Officer at Sharjah; and representatives of The Eastern Bank and Cable and Wireless Ltd.
At the back of the file (folios 355-59) are internal office notes.
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- 1 file (358 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- 'File 8/8 II Annual Administration Report of The Bahrain Agency'
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- 79r:92v, 147r:150v, 212r:218v, 327r:331v
- Author
- Packer, Ernest Vincent
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