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D.O. No. C/763-1.b/5 Dated the 10th December 1338.

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r Will you please refor to paragraph 5 of my demi-official
letter No. C/738 dated the 3rd December 1938 and the memorandum

of grievances againot the Bahrain Petroleum Company enclosed
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with that letter?
2. The meeting with the senior officials of the Bahrain
Petroleum Company was duly held and I now enclose a copy of
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: the minutes of the meeting and of the Company* s memorandum
I which was read at the time. (These have only just reached
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me, and I am afraid there is no time to make additional copies
i before the mail leaves). The minutes were recorded by a Com­
pany^ stenographer, and are not as I should have recorded
them myself; but presumably they have been shaped for consumption
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in the Company’8 own Head Office*.
3. I have the following brief comments to make.
(i) Housing

There are two difficulties here. First that married
Bahraini employees of all classes are reluctant to take their
families up from Manamah and Muharraq to the Oil Camp or its

surroundings since they and their wives thus lose the pleasures
of the town. The Company could not therefore undertake a large
scheme of building married quarters which would probably remain
vacant. On the other hand it is important from the operational
point of view that a number of Bahraini employees should live
close to the Refinery or the Field and although most people of
this type have lived for generations in barastis they now demand
durable Lieutenants Colonel pucco/-

Sir Trenchord Fowle, K.C.J.Ii., C#R.J5 • i
Political Resident in the U-( lulf,
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