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Employment issues at BAPCO 641
Confidential.
No.0/308 of 1941.
orriQO of the Politioal Resident in the
Persian Gulf.
Gamp, Bahrain.
Dated the 8th July, i94l.

Prom The Ilon’ble Lieut.-Oolonel O.O.Prior, o.I.E.,
Politioal Resident in the Persian Gulf,

To • The British Reeident,
efc
Zanzibar.

air,
1 have the honour to state that the Bahrain Government

are anxloue to eeoure the eervloee of a Judicial officer
capable of drawing up simple codes - oivil and criminal - in
Arabic for use In their oourte. Slnoe conditions in Bahrain
are not dieulmilor to those in Zanzibar it is thought that the
task could efficiently be performed by a legally trained Arab

offioer of the Zanzibar Administration. 1 should be grateful
if you would Inform me whether it is possible to secure the
services on deputation of a suitable offioer, and the terms
on which he would be prepared to come. His travelling allow*
anoe and salary would, of course, be met by the Bahrain Govern*

ment. If an offioer on the aoting list cannot bo spared, one
reoently retired would do.
2. The Bahrain Government have mode a compilation of looal
usages and proclamations issued from time to time regulating

such oubjeoto as pearl diving, fishing rights, irrigation
rights, eto. which they wish to be embodied in the proposed
oodes.
X have the honour to be,
air,
Your moat obedient servant#
*/c s

Politioal Resident in the Persian Gulf,