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workoro v»il 1 bo undor tho ouperviaion of tho
Quarantine Uodioal Officor.
Education. Two email country eohoola are
to be opened, ono at Bitruh and ono at Burri.
Those schools will satisfy the demando of tho
Shias who complain, with some justification,
thut while government eohools have been estab-

liahed in the towne whioh aro mostly Sunni the
educational noedB of the Shia oomraunity have not
been provided for. Only reading writing and si
simple arithmetic vd.ll be taujhlTin the oountry
schools.
Efforts aro boing made to introduce teohnioal
instruction in the Lianamah and Uuharraq boys i
schools. There is today in Bahrain a great
demand for oarpentera and msohanios and if boya
could loarn vjork of thia kind at the echoolB it
wuld be of more practical use to them than the

type of education whioh they are getting now.
Provision has been mado for the possibility
of sending six more boyB from the Government
aohools to Bey rout University.
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t Publio V/orkB. A new ouatom house including a
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_ flat for the ouatoma Direotor is to be built on
the shore opposite the open apace faoing the north
end of the Barrett road. The present building is

in a dangerous state of disrepair, Originally
it was badly built on reolained ground and evi­
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dently the foundations were, not carried down to
the bed rook. It has constantly been repaired
with no permanent suooess. The offices are dark
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