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(b) Dlreotor of Custona and Port Officer
Hr. Q.TT.R. Smith.

(o) ptate Rnxlnoer
Mr. W.B. Steal* From 1st January to 22nd July.
Ur. Q.S.U. Hutchings From 22nd July to 2nd November.
Group Captain n.P.G.Loigh From 2nd Nov. to 31st December.

(d) State Uodical Offloer
Dr. H.H.B. Snow
(a) state Lady Doctor
Dr.Miss I.M.A. Doeg

(f) Dirootor of Education
Ur. F.J. U'akelin
(g) Principal % Qovemaont Technical school
Mr. G.B.U. Hutching-

3. THE RUL£R OF BAHRAIN AND THE AL KHALIFAH FAMILY
(a) His Highness Shaikh Sir Salman bin Hamad bin *Isa
Al Khalifuh, K.C.I.’v., interested hiasolf closely in the

government of his country generally, and particularly in the
maintenance of adequate food * supplies for his people. During
the period under review a rapproachnent was effected betweon
His Highness and Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasin Al Thani, C.I.2.«

the Ruler of the neighbouring territory of Qatar, Difficulties
had arisen at far back as 1936 with regard to the ruined
settlement of Zubarah on the west coast of the Qatar peninsula
which resulted in entry into Bahrain being denied to all

subjects of the shaikh of Qatar except for those who wore in
urgent need of medical attendance. On the 17th of June 1944
an agreement vat signed by the two shaikhs to the effect that

formal relations would be resumed on the same lines as the/
had been In the past. The immediate result of the signature
of this agreement was the lifting of the ban against the
subjects of ths Shaikh of Qatar by Bis Highness and the arrival

in Bahrain for msdioal treatment of Shaikh Hamad bln Abdullah
/Al Thani