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been carried through. A fresh budget has been prepared) providing,

for several new public worka, mostly of a sanitary nature. For
the largoot - the construction of a fish-cleaning ghat at a suitable
distance avray from the town of Uatrah, as a preferable alternative

to the foreshore - an advance la to be made from the Treasury,
A new house tax Is to be imposed) to provide independent funds for
the Publlo Health Department, This Department) in a single
year's work In Muscat, has reduced the incidence of malaria
Indoor patients at the.Agency Hospital to half the previous year's

number. The number of Out patients dropped by one fifth. The
electric department Is now to be placed under the administration
of the Municipality, It has previously been managed in a general

way by the Treasury, through a clerk, The Municipality is,
however9 a department which requires continual encouragement.

4. EDUCATION,
(1), The new primary school has mole excellent progress under

Its Palestinian headmaster) Anwar Effendi at-Taaial. It now goes
up to the fifth standard, where the boys can do arithmetic of medium
difficulty and have a good grounding in English, It is hoped to
get the top class up to leaving certificate level in the course of

the next year.
(11). Six boys, who had previously been at school in Iraq, were
sent to the Bahrain secondly school in the autumn. The experiment

was far from a success, Apparently their experiences in Iraq had
unfitted the boys for life in a school with any form of discipline}
and at the end of the year their return from Bahrain was expected,
(ill). The problw of the employment of boys on leaving school

has been considered, snd at present the idea of training some of thee
.as wireless operators is being pushed forward, It nay also be
possible to teach short hand and typing*

6* rrbKpjji ftfc qffWfUNICATIONS,
The wireless equipment ordered by the Sultan from England
in January, 1940, had still not arrived at the end of the yesr.