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BAHRAIN*
18th October, 1947.
D.0. No. 2186-93/2(b )»
Please refer to your telegram No. 12086 dated the
3rd October 1947.
is complicated and I think it will be best if I attempt to
explain it to you in detail. We have three grants (i) for
ordinary repairs which is knov/n as the Central Contract
Grant (ii) for special repairs and (iii) for minor works.
Of these the Central Contract Grant is shown in the Residency
budget and the other two heads are included in the p.W.B.
budget..
(i) Central Contract Grant .
The Residency budget allotment is Rs. 40,000 and this
is intended to cover the Residency Kuwait and the Persian posts.
Against this Rs. 15,100 approximately has been drawn up to date
leaving a balance of Rs. 24,900. The amount drav/n includes
Rs. 6,666/11 on account of the £. 500 sanctioned for repairs
to the Jufair buildings. The whole of this £. 500 has been
drawn but the bulk of i t has not vet been spent. I would
emphasise tne fact tna¥ I applied for permission to spend this
sum as a kind of advance pending His Majesty f s Governments
approval of the entire Central Contract Grant vide my demi-
official letter No. 1106-91/1 of the 10th May, 1947, to you and
I trust that the balance of the Central Contract Grant will
remain at my disposal for expenditure on the Residency buildings
or elswwhere as may be required.
on the Persian side and a further Rs. 5,000/- is likely to be
required to cover ordinary repairs at Shiraz* Bushire and
Khorramshahr. It is not reasonable that this grant should be
treated in the same way as the P.W.B. grants and be regarded
as being intended half for the Arab and half for the Persian
side of the Gulf as the bulk of it would ordinarily have been
spent on the Sabzabad Residency and connected buildings. The
place of these has now been taken by the Jufair buildings. If
it is necessary to make a definite allotment between the two
sides of the Gulf then Rs. 10,000 of the original grant of
Rs. 40,000 should be allotted for the Persian side and the
balance for the Arab side.
The Muscat and Bahrain Agencies have separate allotments
of Rs. 4,000 and Ks. 1,600 respectively as Central Contract
E.P. Donaldson, Esquire, C.M.G.,
Commonwealth Relations Office,
Whitehall, LONDON.
2 .
The position regarding money available for works
About Rs. 5,000/- of the grant has already been spent