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A « C /y DUSHIRE RESIDENCY.
No U».cj
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Confidential Onto.
CONFIDENTIAL NECQROt
D.O.Wo.C/348-4/16. Dated the 23rd April 1940.

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You will remember that a man named Hutchings from
Baghdad came to Bahrain last winter in order to inspect
the Technical School and advise on the development of
Technical Education here. {' < tao
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2. I now enclose a cony of a rooort which he hats .just
produced. It is nn interesting report and I dare say it
will be very useful in due course: but you will see that
his ideas arc rathe)* too large for Bahrain, and I do not

think that Bahrain can possibly absorb as many as 50 trained
technical students a year, If this report were followed
literally', the State would be involved in non-recurring
expenditure of close on Rs. l-} lakhs and recurring expendi­
ture not very far short of Rs, 50,000 annually, These
figures are far beyond what can and ought to be spent
here.

3. Frankly I am not quite sure yet how the State can
best use this report. But as a preliminary I propose to
present a copy of it to Thornburg and t.o invite his Company
to make a gift of the equipment listed, The success of
this move of course depends largely on the ability of His
Majesty'3 Government to moke up their minds about the con­
cession and the political agreement for the Unallotted Area.
Yours sincerely,

Honourable Lieutenant Colonel
C. G. Prior, C.I.I5..
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
Busliire.
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