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'File 8/8 VII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1948' [‎150r] (299/322)

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The record is made up of 1 file (159 folios). It was created in 3 Jan 1949-11 Jan 1950. 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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Abdur Rahman Mohammed Taiiir, and Mohammed all bin
Mohammed Tahir al Sharif, left for the United King
dom to visit the British Industries Fair. They also
visited France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, and Egypt.
Messrs. Khalid Aujan and Abdur Rahman Mohammed Tahir
returned to Bahrain in August. Mohammed Ali Al Sharif
had not returned at the end of fe)ie year.
(ii) Bahrain Cinemas .
In July the n Pearl Cinema” a modern luxry
cinema, owned by one of the Gosaibi Brothers, Saudi
merchants long established in Bahrain, was opened to the
public. The cinema seats over 700 persons and boasts
of an air-conditioning unit which, owing to the electricity
shortage, could not be used in 1948. Manamah town has
now three local cinema houses and one nearing completion
and Muharraq one local cinema house.
(Ill) "Water Garden".
In August, the opening of a new "Water
Garden” outside Manamah town was celebrated with an
aquacade arranged by Mr.Belgrave, the Adviser to the
Bahrain Government, for which nearly every department
of the Bahrain Government was pressed into service. The
garden has been constructed by the reclamation and filling
in of some marshy land to make two artificial lakes and
the cost is said to have exceeded Rs.10,000/-. It Is
now never used.
(iv) Liquor .
There is a large amount of liquor both
imported and locally manufactured to be bought on the
black market and Bahrainis of all classes are fond of
Alcohol. His Highness, however, has not yet been able
to oven--«ome his own and otheife rooted objection to the
overt drinking of liquor by Bahrainis and his Muslim
subjects still labour under total prohibition. In
September one of the shops imported and was allowed to
sell a consignment of apple cider to the public but it
brought forth such a fulmination from the Qadhi of the
Friday mosque that His Highness made haste to issue an
"Ahlan" forbidding its further sale.
(v) Rents .
Despite much new building, rents are still
very high and the finding of good accommodation at not
too exhobitant a rent is difficult. His Highness, who
Is a large owner of house property, would like to deal
with this situation by raising rents still higher, which
he ingeniously suggests, would encourage more new building
of residential quarters. In November a committee appointed
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. and presided over by the Assistant
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. met at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. to consider a 4# to 6#
increase on the value of the property In the existing
rent rate. They found, however, that this would make, .
in fact, for increased inflation and a resultant demand
for increased wages, and concluded that an increase in
the rent rate was only possible if houses were to be
reassessed excluding the value of the site.

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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the 1948 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 active in Bahrain that provide reports and statistics for the annual report. These include: Medical Department of the Government of Bahrain; British Postal Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ; American Mission Hospital; Eastern Bank Limited; Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO); Customs Department of the Government of Bahrain; 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 116-129) 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bahrain.

The final report (folios 123-148), which includes the final, summarised 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. Al Khalifa; 2. Education; 3. Agriculture; 4. Water Conservation; 5. Municipalities; 6. Public Works; 7. Electricity Department; 8. Telephone Department; 9. Transport Department; 10. Pearling; 11. Customs; 12. Food Control; 13. Shipping; 14. Post Office; 15. Administration of Justice; 16. Police; 17. Economic; 18. Medical; 19. Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited; 20. Petroleum Concessions Limited; 21. Cable and Wireless Limited; 22. British Overseas Airways Corporation; 23. Royal Navy; 24. United States Navy; 25. Royal Air Force; 26. US Consul, Dhahran; 27. Visitors; 28. Bahrain and Palestine; 29. Bahrain and Persia; 30. Items of Interest; 31. Weather; 32. Qatar; 33. 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 159-60 are internal office notes.

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1 file (159 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 with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 161; 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 typed foliation sequence is also present between ff 40-88; these numbers are located in the same position as the main sequence.

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