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'File 8/8 V Annual Report for the Year 1946' [24r] (47/318)
The record is made up of 1 file (157 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1946-5 Mar 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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(iii) On the 20th of October bh&ikh ba'ib tin Leicturn, QBE
Ruler of Dubai, left for Ain-Khainii* (Persia) on a visit to tlie
hot springs tl^ere anti returned to Dubai on the 2nc of
November*
(iv) On the 2bth of November o^iaikh kuhammaa bin hamaa
Ath-Sharqi of Fujairah left for juuscat by roaa anc returned
to Fujairah on the Ibth of December*
1 3* British Interestss
(i) kr. P. Ward was station kanager of the b.O.A*C*
from the 1st of oanuaiy 1946 to the 2ora of April 1946 when he
hanaea over charge to mr* W*J*h* V^akefield, Iraffic Oiiicerj
and left for Karachi on transfer* on the bth of Lay 1946 Lr.
u* kcLean arrived and took over as station ktna^er. On the
28th of august kr. kchean proceeded on leave, handing over
to kr. \v*J.h. Wakefield who remained as acting station kanager
until the end of tiie year®
(ii) On the 3rd of January 1946 kr* F.If* Johnson, a
representative of the Imperial nank of Iran arrived at sharjah*
he started negotiations with and obtained a concession from the
Ruler of Dubai for the opening of a branch of the Imperial Dank
of Iran in Dubai. The agreement which was for 20 years was
signed on the 6th of January* {kr. Johnson left for Bahrain on
the 9th of January* On the 21st of kay 1946 kr. burton,
kanager of the Imperial bank of Iian, Bahrain, ai*rived at Dubai
in connection with the lease of a building to be occupied by the
Bank, (he left for Bahrein on the 22nd of key 1946. On the 3rA
of June kr. G.H. neast, manager of the imperial rank of Iran,
Dubai, arrived and concluded the lease of a building for the
bank and a plot of lano on which he started building a house
to be occupied by the kanagero The Bank opened for business
in Dubai on the 12th of October 1946.
(iii) On the 3ra of January kr. E.P. bermitte of kessrs.
Petroleum Development (
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
) btd. arrived at Dubai.
On the 11th of January Captain D. Glynn Jones ano kr. Remsaen,
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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the 1946 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. , as well as the reports themselves.
The correspondence is 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 representatives of institutions that provide reports and statistics for the annual report. These include: Medical Department of the Government of Bahrain; Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department; American Mission Hospital; Eastern Bank Limited; Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO); Customs Department of the Government of Bahrain; Cable and Wireless Limited; Victoria Memorial Hospital; British Overseas Airways Corporation; Petroleum Concessions Limited; Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Sir Charles Belgrave); Imperial Bank of Iran; and Gray, Mackenzie & Co Limited. The Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. report (folios 23-33) is submitted to the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. by the Political Officer at Sharjah. Both final reports are then submitted by 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. at Bahrain to 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. at Bushire.
The final report (folios 125-152), which includes the final version of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Report, is made up of numbered sections, as follows: 1. Officers; 2. Bahrain Government Officials; 3. The Al Khalifah; 4. Education; 5. Agriculture; 6. Municipalities; 7. Public Works; 8. Electricity Department; 9. Telephone Department; 10. Pearling; 11. Customs; 12. Food Control; 13. Shipping; 14. Accidents within Port Limits; 15. The Port of Bahrain; 16. Post Office; 17. Administration of Justice; 18. Police; 19. Economic; 20. Medical; 21. The Bahrain Petroleum Company; 22. Petroleum Concessions Limited; 23. Cable & Wireless Limited; 24. British Overseas Airways Corporation; 25. Royal Navy; 26. Royal Air Force; 27. American Consulate, Dhahran; 28. Visitors; 29. Local Affairs; 30. The Weather; 31. Qatar; 32. Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Some sections are further divided into parts assigned either a lower case Roman numeral (iv, for example) or a lower case letter of the alphabet (d, for example). Several of these parts also come under a sub-heading.
Folios 155-158 are internal office notes.
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- 1 file (157 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-125; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- IOR/R/15/2/302
- Title
- 'File 8/8 V Annual Report for the Year 1946'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:17v, 21r:33v, 40r:44v, 58r:59v, 75r:78v, 124r:158v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence