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3. AL KHALIFAH.
Hi3 Highness Shaikh Salman continued to take a
keen Interest in the administration of the State. He
continued his urging of the Bahrain petroleum company
to extract more oil, and also expressed anxiety that
the pearling industry had not recovered the ground lost
during the war. He is anxious to raise the standard of
secondary education in Bahrain, and to this end has asked
for the services of a British Director of Education and a
British Headmaster for the Manama Secondary School.
In February His Highness personally inspected the
site where the new customs sheds are to be erected, and
visited the power house in April to start the new 206 KW
generating set which had arrived at the end of last year*
He wants visitors to carry away a good impression of
Bahrain. When he met Lord Petbick Lawrence on the latter*s
return from India in June he expatiated at some length on
the good government and general prosperity, that were to be
found in Bahrain.
Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa al Khalifah, senior uncle
of His Highness, paid his usual visits to Egypt during
the year, the last one being June-September.
Shaikh Abdullah bin Isa al Khalifah, C.I.E., went
on a number of shooting trips during the year, He visited
the mainland on two of these trips.
In February Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed bin Isa
arrived from Jerusalem where he had been studying law.
He was appointed a magistrate of the Bahrain court in
April.
A son of His Highness and a son of Shaikh Khalifah
bin Mohammed were among those persons operated on by Sir
Henry Holland when he visited Bahrain in November.
4. EDUCATION.
(i) Number of schools in
existence on 1.1.*46 15

Number of schools in
existence on 31.12.*46 15
Number of students on
1.1.*46 2,736

Number of students on
31.12.*46 3,178
Number of teachers on
1.1.*46 137
Number of teachers on
31.12.*46 156

(ii) Boys1 Schools.
All the schools were filled to capacity during
/the year• • • •