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unU Oman with sons of suitable aye v/ould be in u
position to pay fees.
0. Seotion 5 of tho report shows that Dundas
hus no conception of social conditions in Buhruin.
whaikhs do not become government officials or
school teachers, exoept a very few who hold suoh

posts as magistrates, 3ons of merchants usually
enter their father*s businoss. Sons of working
class or urtisan parents do not attend tho town
schools, only the village sohools are attended by
labourers and cultivators. The majority of the

ooya at the town schools are the sons of shopkeepers
brokers and clerks, in faot the middle olasses.
In'the sumo suction it is otutud thut about
btyw of the places in the college would be reserved
for Bahrainis, the full number is to be 500 there­
fore eventually tho college will contain about
kbO boys from other parts of tho Gulf, I think

conditions in the Gulf will have to change very
radioully before this number of boys paying the
fees whioh are suggested in the report is forthcoming.
10. In seotion 7 it is suggested .that most, of

the boys in the junior school would be, d$y boys, .
including boys from Hedd and Muharraq. At present
v.e find it so difficult for boys from liedd and Muhar-
ruq to attend the Kulliyah as day boys that those
who come from there arc boarders.
11. The rates of puy of English and nsiatio
ousters mentioned in seotion 13 appears to be extra­
vagant . I understand that English masters in Iraq

yturt at £432, per.annum rising to £480. and do not