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Reference* your memorandum ho.C/194 dated to the 4th
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,:,j)i*il,,1941.
% In accordance with your suggestion that the Indian
'co-iMunity of JJnhrain might vie leone the est'iblis; jf.ont «.•/.* a

school'for their children, 1 called several Meetings of parents#
3. ' At the present moment the only sciiovl catering for
Indian children is one run by the dor-iar. Catholic com.'.unity
hero and Mon dorian Catholic parents stated that troy would lie
ijlad if a non-denoninatior.al .school coal.* ho opened.

4. To begin with, a primary school :i.; a]I that would
bo required and parents insist that the sodium -f instruction
should bo English in view of the special conditions prevailing
In..% lira in where firms and especially the Oil Company insist
or. a good know led je of English in their employees#
5.- In India primary schools are, I believe, taught in
the.vernacular, and English only becomes a inodium of instruction
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On reaching the Secondary Schools# There seems no reason,
however, against using English as the medium of instruction
*n Bahrain.
6. A number of parents have signified their readiness to
support the scheme and to pay a iionthly ice *.vt is• •£/— per child#
toe Minimum number of children expected to attend is 60 which

Indicates an income of »u#100/- pc:* mensem•
Two teachers, a man and a woman, would be required
fet'he first instance-and these might be provided by the Sind
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^thorities', • that-'province- being tho-.closest .to- Bahrain# • 'j