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Irksome visa regulations have remained unaltered. This
ha3 caused quite an amount of resentment, especially since
the Kuweit Government has placed no obstacles in the way of
Iraqis visiting Kuwait.
On a number of occasions the Iraqi frontier patrol
cars drove well inside Kuwait territory with the ostensible
ourpose of preventing smuggling?contraband goods. These
incursions were naturally resented by the Shaikh.

VII DATE GARDENS.
(a) FA0.
Almost the entire date-crop was token by the
tenants without surrendering his share to the Shaikh in
consequence of the sudden cancellation during the harvest by
a Basra Judge of the orders of attachment passed by him the
previous year. His Highness protested against this and
the matter has been taken up with the British Embassy at
Baghdad.
(b)< BA^SHIYAH.
/the Iraq Government auctioned the 180 shares
lost by His Highness in litigation and the Shaikh purchased
them through Syed Hamid al Naqeeb, an Iraq subject, for
I.D. 9399.404/-.
The Shaikh’s two lawyers, Sulaiman Faidhi and
Jamil Sadiq, resigned their appointment with effect from
the 15th December, 1946 as a protest at the perversions of
justice inflicted upon the Shaikh which they found them­
selves powerless to combat.
VIII COST 0? LIvino.
The end of hostilities did not bring in its wake
the anticipated drop in the general price level which
remained high right through the year. The daily wages of
an unskilled labourer inclusive of food are approximately
*5 7/- per day and a skilled worker; e.g. a carpenter, can
command as high a wage as 1-s 25/- per day. The sale of tea,
sugar and cloth at controlled rates prevented much hardship.
A comparative statement of the prices of main
commodities is attached as Appendix "A*.

IX. ROYAL NAVY.
H.II.S. "V/ren" visited Kuwait on the 15th December.
X. ROYAL AIR FORCE.

The Royal Air Force withdrew their detachment
from Kuwait during the year.
XI. KUT/AIT OIL COMPANY.
At the -beginning of the year, the Company was
engaged on the work of installing pipelines, erecting tanks,
and commissioning wells drilled prior to recommencement of
operations. In April, four submarine pipelines were GLaunchec
at Fahaheel and connected to the flow lines from four
gravity tanks constructed at Ahnadi. In June, the pumping
of oil from the gathering centre constructed at Burgan to
tanks at Ahmadl wa3 begun and on the 30th June, after His
Highness the Shaikh of Kuwait x had ceremonially opened a
valve at Fahaheel, a tanker began to load the first cargo
of crude oil to bo exported from Kuwait. The 30th of June
marked the completion of the effort put out by the Company
between the middle of 1945 and that date, but construction