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thelr purpose. The Palestinian teachers had most of them teen
here sometime and were asking for increased salaries, so they were
allowed to return to their homeland and the Headmaster of the
principal school was sent forth to Syria and Egypt with instruc­

tions to find tetter men at more reasonatle rates than the Pales-
tin^ns were demanding. This object he achieved by approaching
the Egyptian Educational Department and enlisting four teachers
at a sdlary of £. 12 a month, the Egyptian Government undertaking

to allow the men to retain a lien on their appointments in Egypt
and paying £. 12 a month to the relatives of the teachers in
Egypt. It is very doubtful if the Kuwait Government was aware
how their headmaster was going to set about the task of getting
better material for less money, and he was undoubtedly not carrying
anything in the nature of official or unofficial letters of intro­

duction to the Egyptian Government but his action has placed the
Euler in an embarrassing position. The Educational Adviser who
carried out a thorough inspection of the Kuwait Educational Esta­
blishments in October considered that the new masters were without

question an asset from an educational point of view but the politi­
cal aspect of the question is not by any means as rosy and the
matter is still under consideration.
(h) Financial. Money has been plentiful, in' fact during the

last year there has been more money in Kuwait than for many years
previously. This is partly due to the general rise in the selling
price of all kinds of goods and partly to the import of large sums

of money by various Service formations to pay for local purchases
of dhows, wooden water tanks, and fish oil. Local labour has
greatly ttasefSlte&l by Inland -Tater Transport boat building program­
mes and the reconstruction of American barges at Shuwaikh so that
all classes of the population have had money to spend.

In the^arly part of the year the rupee notes of various
denominations were at a serious discount and the continual demand,
for silver coin was embarrassing to the Agency,' the Imperial Banki

the Kuwait Oil Company, Messrs. Cable and Tireless limited,and to
the various Military and other Service formations who.desired to