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Note dated the Slot August 1937 by O.K.Caroo Eaqulre,
CIE. Off ic lft ting Political Rooldent in the Pore ion Gull*,

Subjoot: Bahrain State Budget Eotimato
for the Arable year 1356.

There ooema to be no prooeoo -

(a) for watching progress of actualo against
allotmento ;
(b) fer oeourlng oanot ion to exceoo expenditure;

(c) for audit generally;
Or io the new Treaoury Officer to do all this ?
With the vast increase of prosperity in Bahrain, reflect­

ed in budgets which suggest that expenditure will be hard put to
it to keep place with income, it seems essential to get Bahrai n
finances strictly overhauled and placed on a more regular
tyotera. Sir Trenohard Fowle touched on this in a conversation

with Mr.Belgrave and mysolf Just before his departure on leave,
and I will try to make an opportunity for sane discussion with

Mr. Bolgrave during the oomlng months. The point to remember
io that there is perhaps more peril, though of a different
sort, in bursting raoney-^ags than in empty ones, One sugges-

tion was to put an Offioer wlith experience of the control of
finance in Indian States on special duty to overhaul the
Bahrain administrative organization.

A copy of this note might be sent by demi-official
letter to Captain Hickinbotham for oanment.

Id. O.K.Caroe.