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Ths Polio6 Force carried out Its usual training
throughout tha year.

As a defence measure* mounted patrols were carried
out during the year by the oamel and horse sections of the
State Police| thus reducing to a minimum the opportunities
of unauthorised persona to enter the Island.
The state of public security continued to be satis*

factory* Wo serious crimes came to notice during the year
and the decrease In traffic accidents continued.
5. Agriculture
An agricultural expert was obtained from Egypt and
a committee was set up to discuss methods of Improving agri­

culture In Bahrain.
There has been a tendency among local gardeners to
grow a wider range of vegetables. European vegetables wars

grown In the experimental gerden at Budeyaf but this did not
prove to be a profitable undertaking! owing to the small
number of people who consume them. The date crop was un­
usually good during the year and, owing to the great amount

of rain in 1939, grazing was good and lasted well Into the
summer. i
While they wore drilling structure holes for geologi­
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cal Information, the Bahcaln Petroleum Company discovered
that there was a danger of artesian wells falling owing to
the excessive use of existing supplies of water. The Bahraii
Government Immediately took steps to oontrol water oonmimp*

tlon by prohibiting the boring of artesian walls without per
mission of the Government and by ordering that the flow of
water from existing wells should ba regulated by valves#
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Progress wss made In tha constructions of new roads#
!*a Important am road waa baUt from tho Oovarnmant Hoapital
to A

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