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'File 8/8 V Annual Report for the Year 1946' [127r] (253/318)
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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3, AL KHALIFAH >
His Higimess Shaiich Salman continued to take a
keen interest in the administration of the State. He
continued his urging of.the Bahrain petroleum Company
to extract more oil, and also expressed anxiety that
the pearling industry had not recovered the ground lost
during the war. He is anxious to raise the standard of
secondary education in Bahrain, and to this end has asked
for the services of a British Director of Education and a
British Headmaster for the Manama Secondary School.
In February His Highness personally inspected the
site where the new customs sheds are to be erected, and
visited the power house in April to start the new 206 KW
generating set which had arrived at the end of last year.
He wants visitors to carry away a good impression of
Bahrain. When he met Lord Pethick Lawrence on the latter’s
return from India in June he expatiated at some length on
the good government and general prosperity that were to be
found in Bahrain.
Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa al Khalifah, senior uncle
of His Highness, paid his usual visits to Egypt during
the year, the last one being June-September.
Shaikh Abdullah bin Isa al Khalifah, C.I.E., went
on a number of shooting trips during the year. He visited
the mainland on two of these trips.
In February Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed bin Isa
arrived from Jerusalem where he had been studying law.
He was appointed a magistrate of the Bahrain Court in
April.
A son of His Highness and a son of Shaikh Khalifah
bin Mohammed were among those persons operated on by sir
Henry Holland when he visited Bahrain in November.
4. EDUCATION.
(i) Number
of
schools
in
existence
on 1.1. ’-
46
15
Number
of
schools
in
existence
on 31.12
. *46 .
15
Number
of
students
on
1.1. ’46
2,736
Number
of
students
on
31.12. »46
3,178
Number
of
teachers
on
1.1.’46
137
Number
of
teachers
on
31.12.’46
156
(ii) Boys’ Schools .
All the schools were filled to capacity during
/the year....
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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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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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- Title
- 'File 8/8 V Annual Report for the Year 1946'
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- front, front-i, 2r:17v, 21r:33v, 40r:44v, 58r:59v, 75r:78v, 124r:158v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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