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Coll 30/9(2) 'Persian Gulf Annual Administration Reports' [28r] (57/88)
The record is made up of 1 file (41 folios). It was created in 1 Jun 1949-29 Jun 1949. 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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13
both residential and industrial were erected. Qatari
contractors working under the supervision of Company
technicians were used upto the end of the year. The
Umm Bab area has been selected as the residential
area and the Industrial ares will be sited on the
plateau about three quarters of a mile east of the
nevt El Hamleh harbour.
Work on a pilot jetty of 400 yards by 20
yards was begun at A1 Hamleh. Messrs. Holloway
Brothers are building a trans-peninsular road which
is expected to be ready by mid June of 1949. They
have also completed about 60^ of the Umm Said Jetty.
An air strip has been constructed at Umm
Said and the first plane landed on it on the 18th
November, 1948.
(c) Employees .
The following is a roster of the Company
employees in Qatar as on 31st December, 1948i-
British
202
Americans
15
Swiss
1
French
1
Indians
308
Pakistanis
152
Goans
91
Bahrainis
195
Muscatis
49
Omanis
2
Iranians
1
Palestineans
17
Lebanese
2
Iraqis
9
Somalis
6
Kuwaitis
2
Qataris
TOTAlt
2.812
(d) Shipping Tonnages .
U.K.
14,678
U.3.A.
1,532
South Africa
8
Australia
45
India
3,736
Holland
750
Belgium
2,063
Italy
1
Iran
2,123
Iraq
659
Bapco
1,128
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
20
Qatar
255
Norway
18
Kuwait
1
Sweden
570
Aden
-...w
TClALs
27.587
Tonnage imported direct to Umm Said by
Strick Line steamers amounted to 955 tons.
(2) Trurlal Coast
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This file consists of two annual administration reports for the year 1948, one for the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Muscat (folios 4-15) and the other for the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain incorporating 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 (folios 16-42).
These two reports cover the following topics:
- Ruling Family
- Education
- Agriculture
- Medical
- Oil
- Trade
- Political Situation
- Customs
- Public Works
- Financial
- Communications
- Visitors
- Extent and format
- 1 file (41 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 43; 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.
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- Title
- Coll 30/9(2) 'Persian Gulf Annual Administration Reports'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1Ar, 1Av, 2r:42v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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