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Coll 6/19 'Arabia: (Saudi Arabia) Hejaz-Nejd Annual Report.' [‎268r] (536/540)

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The record is made up of 1 file (268 folios). It was created in 18 Apr 1931-18 May 1945. 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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Industry.
A new workshop has been established in ^
in Jedda and the “Kiswa” factory An East India Company trading post. at Mecca.
^xjricuUure.
The Government have imported some modern machines for pumping water
to - e used in Hejaz and Nejd, and their success has encouraged the inhabitants
to order some like them. Such machines are exempt from dury.
The Government have printed at their expense a book on agriculture written
by one of the agriculturists of Medina named Saleh Shaqlebha and they have
distributed it amongst the people.
A rmy.
The Government have unified the administration of the army, purchased new
aeroplanes and equipped the army with modern materials.
al, Mecca, in addition to
Post, Telegraphs and Telephone.
Motor cars have been brought into use for carrying mails.
New telephone lines have been erected. New wireless stations have been
made. Others will be made shortly, so that the country will be all connected
with a wireless system.
The agreements concluded by the International Postal Congress held last
year at London have been ratified.
Water.
New reservoirs have been made at Mecca.
Many repairs have been made in the pipes of ’Ain Zubeida.
Water has become so plentiful that it is now easy for the pilgrims and the
people to get what they need.
Municipality.
Wide streets have been opened at Mima. Repairs have been made on the
road between Mecca and Arafat. Motor cars for watering the land and
extinguishing fires have been imported. Plates for numbering houses have been
imported.
It has been decided to establish slaughter-houses in a scientific manner in
certain towns.
Projects Committed.
The Government have instituted a committee to study schemes for the
increasing of the prosperity of the country. The said committee has begun to
consider the things which the country requires. It has studied projects for
electricity, supply of water to houses by pipes and the question of minerals, &c.
Health.
The Government have imported the most modern instruments and equipment
for their hospitals.
They have also sent two doctors to Europe, one to study X-ray work and the
other to study bacteriology. They have also established a hospital at Bahra and
ordered that certain others should be created in other cities. They have increased
the number of shelters and dispensaries placed along the road between Mecca and
Arafat and used cars for carrying the sick. They have printed and distributed
among pilgrims medical advice in different languages, issued a regulation
concerning vaccination against smallpox and drawn up a programme of certain
sanitary improvements which are still under discussion

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This file contains copies of annual reports regarding the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) during the years 1930-1938 and 1943-1944.

The reports were produced by the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) and sent to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (and in the case of these copies, forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India), with the exception of the reports for 1943 and 1944, which appear to have been produced and sent by His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda, Stanley R Jordan.

The reports covering 1930-1938 discuss the following subjects: foreign relations; internal affairs; financial, economic and commercial affairs; military organisation; aviation; legislation; press; education; the pilgrimage; slavery and the slave trade; naval matters. The reports for 1943 and 1944 are rather less substantial. The 1943 report discusses Arab affairs, Saudi relations with foreign powers, finance, supplies, and the pilgrimage, whilst the 1944 report covers these subjects in addition to the following: the activities of the United States in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East Supply Centre, and the Saudi royal family.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (268 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 269; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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 2-12 and ff 45-268; these numbers are also written in pencil but are not circled.

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