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Commission on Money Orders
sent from Bahrain Rs. 9,555. 5. 0 Rs.10,831.0.0 Rs.9396. 7.0
Total sale of stamps R3.129,074. 4, 0 Rs.81,745.1.6 Rs.74229. 0.0

British Postal Orders
sold Rs. 9. 3. 0 Rs. 29.9.6 Rs. 30.14.0
Indian Postal Orders
commission Rs. 34.10. 0 RS. 22.3.0 Rs. 32.13.0
Revenue on unpaid letters Es. 601. 1. 0 Rg, ^0.5.0 Rs. 269.15.0
Total Revenue: Rs.139,274. 7. 0 Rs.93,158.3.0 Rs83£59. 1.0
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Amount of Money Orders sent from Bahrain in 1943
totalled Rs.4,77,463/9/-.
15. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
(a) Agency Courts

The total number of civil suits and criminal cases
decided during the year was 1,341 and 336 respectively as compared
with 1275 and 376 in the previous year.
(b) Bahrain Government
Shaikh Hamad bin Abdullah bin Ibrahim A1 Khalifah was

appointed a Magistrate in the Court of Small Causes replacing
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Shaikh Mohamad bin All A1 Khalifah who died during the year.

16. EDUCATION

(i) Bovs* Section
The work of schools has continued satisfactorily but
the number of buildings Is still inadequate. Efforts are being
made to provide accommodation and obtain additional trained

teachers but the absence of building materials due to the war
and the extreme difficulty of obtaining teachers has made it
impossible for the Bahrain Government to fulfil their object.

The demand for a good education for their children by Bahrain
parents is due to the fact that they have now come to realise
that boys when properly educated obtain more remunerative posts
and that girls who have received a good education find the con­

tracting of a suitable marriage less difficult than their more

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