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to the main Manamah-Rafa1 road and ouoh of tha swamp

land south of Manamah was filltd In and now roads wars
oonstruotod ovor It*
The usual town cleaning and upkeep of roads, super*

vision of markets and munipsl services were maintained*
(11) Puharrao
Apart from the normal municipal services, which
were maintained throughout the year, the Muharraq Munici­
pality concentrated their activities mainly on road-build­
ing*

7* Public Works
The moat important public work to be completed

during the yeur was the ^anamali-lAiharraq bridge, which
was built by Messrs. Holloway Brothers* The war had
delayed considerably its completion, two sections of

the bridge being lost at sea. However, duplicates of
ths missing sections v/era made in the workshops of tht
Bahrain Petroleum Compsny and the bridge was opened by

His Highness the Shaikh of Bahrain on the 18th December,
1041*
The administrative block of ths Stats Hospital was
almost completed, the ground floor rooms being In occupa­
tion before ths end of ths year*

Ths new Technical School was completed*
Hew married lines were built on the south side of

the Polios Fort In plaoe of the old hnts which formerly
accommodated families of the polios*
8* Blsotrlo Pepartfflerft
Owing chiefly to the lighting restrictions la

Bahrain, there was not the utuel Increase la load* The
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connected load on the 31et December 1941 was 853 K*W«,

with a maximum recorded load of 168 K.V., the corresponds
ins figures for the previous year being 613 K*W* and
180 K#W# respectively*
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