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'File 8/8 VIII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1949' [157r] (313/372)
The record is made up of 1 file (184 folios). It was created in 4 Jan 1950-20 Jul 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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to obtain tha services of a British Agriculture Adviser,
One Mr. Forsyth offered to take up the appointment but
had backed out.
Sir Herbert Stewart, formerly of the Imperial
Institute of Agriculture, Pusa, visited Bahrain in March
at the invitation of His Excellency 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.
to advise on the possibilities of agricultural development.
He was able to examine most of the cultivated area of
the island, including the Government Experimental Farm
at Budaiyah and met a number of officers of the Bahrain
Government.
6. MUNICIPALITIES .
The usual routine work in sanitation, town clean
ing, road repairing, etc., was carried out. Owing to
the poor state of the finances of the municipalities,
much of the road repairing work inside the town was done
by the Public Works Department.
6. WATER CONSERVATION .
His Highness appointed a committee in February
consisting of Mr. R. Godfrey, the Chief Geologist of the
Bahrain Petroleum Company, Khan Bahadur Abdul Aziz bin
Hasan al Gosaibi, Haji Majsur al Irrayyidh, Haji Isa bin
Saif al bin Ali, and Haji Abdullah bin Muhammad to examine
all applications for the digging of water wells in the
island. His Highness himself took the chair at the
first meeting of the Committee which was held in March.
It is feared however that considerations other than water
conservation often influence the Committee in their deal
ings with applications for the digging of much prized
new wells.
7. PUBLIC WORKS .
The new Government Offices in the Customs Square
were completed in June and almost all the offices of the
Bahrain Government, except the Adviserate, were moved
to the new premises. A building to house the British
Nursing Sisters, the Women’s Isolation Hospital and a block
of male wards in the Government Hospital were completed
during the year. The Manamah water supply scheme was
completed by the Contractors and taken over by the Public
Works Department.
8. ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT .
Mr. Donald Brammer remained as State Engineer
throughout the year. The Power Station building was ex
tended to almost twice its original size and one 300 k.w
and one 360 k.w. generating sets were installed. The
installation of one 360 k.w. and one 850 k.w. generating
sets was commenced and the construction of a large water
cooling tower and pond was completed in July. At the
close of theyear the total installed capacity of the
station was 1360 k.w. The H.T. line on the causeway to
Muharraq was replaced by an under-ground cable. Three
new sub-station buildings were completed in Manamah and
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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the 1949 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. , including 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 Agencies; 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); British Bank of Iran and the Middle East (formerly 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. (folios 106-22) and Qatar (folios 99-102) reports are 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 and the British Agent at Doha, respectively. 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 155-183), 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. and Qatar reports, is made up of numbered sections, as follows: 1. General; 2. Al Khalifah; 3. Education; 4. Agriculture; 5. Municipalities; 6. Water Conservation; 7. Public Works; 8. Electricity Department; 9. Automatic Telephones; 10. Pearling; 11. Bahrain Fisheries; 12. Sale of Landed Property to Foreigners; 13. Deportation of Undesirables; 14. Currency; 15. Customs; 16. Food Control; 17. Shipping; 18. Post Office; 19. Administration of Justice; 20. Police; 21. Economic; 22. Medical; 23. Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited; 24. Cable and Wireless Limited; 25. British Overseas Airways Corporation; 26. Royal Navy; 27. Unites States Navy; 28. United States Consul, Dhahran; 29. Visitors; 30. Items of Interest; 31. Weather. 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 184-85 are internal office notes.
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- 1 file (184 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 inside back cover with 186; 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 present in parallel between ff 2-152; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- 'File 8/8 VIII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1949'
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- front, front-i, 2r:17v, 91r:95v, 98r:103v, 105r:122v, 140r:141v, 153r:185v, 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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