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'File 8/8 V Annual Report for the Year 1946' [‎131r] (261/318)

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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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/ear under review, and the Bahrain Government had again
to spend a large sum of money, Rs.10,600,000 in purchasing
essential foodstuffs.
The monthly cereal ration was maintained at last
year’s level, varying in composition, however, according
to the stocks in hand. More rice was available than in
1945 because the Government was able to obtain supplies
of Persian rice at regular intervals.
The cloth rationing system was successfully
maintained and cloth was issued to the villagers twice
in the year and to the towns of Manama and Muharraq five
times in the year. (The reason for this differentiation
is not known). There is, however, an extreme shortage of
white longcloth and white mulls for summer wear.
' During the second half of the period under review
^U.S.A. consumer goods began to arrive from the United Kingdom^/in
and India increasing quantities. It is hoped to relax price control
on as many articles as possible in 1947. It has already
been removed from luxury articles. The re-export from
Bahrain of more goods was allowed to encourage trade.
Black-market operators were active but several
of the racketeers were fined and imprisoned. This has
had a deterrent effect and one result has been that many
more people have applied for ration cards.
There was still no sign of any downward trend in
prices in 1946.
13. GRIPPING .
The following is a statement of ships that
called during the year 1946s-
British
256
American
199
Norwegian
40
Dutch
25
Panaraerican
20
Swedish
10
Danish
- 7
Italian
6
Canadian
3
566
Phe total imports for the year amounted to
51,825 tons and exports to 192,375 tons of which 184,908
tons were petroleum coke.
14. ACCIDENTS WITHIN PORT LIMITS .
On the 9th February, 1946, a foreign dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. bound
for the port of Doha with a cargo of 400 gallas of dates
and 12 tins of date juice sank north of Muharraq. All
the cargo was lost and the craft became a wreck. On the
same day a Persian vessel was wrecked at Sayeh near
Fasht al Adham. The cargo was lost but the crew was saved.
/On the 29th

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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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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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