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10. pBAFLIMQ.
The number of boats which want diving during 1950
luagon was 94 aompared to 83 last year. The catch was better
than that of previous years. The season started In July and
the first fleet of boats left on the 21st July. The season
closed at the beginning of. Novembor. One Hr. K, Chidambaram,
Aualstant Director.of Fisheries, Marine Biology, Government of
Madras (India), visited Bahrain in October and collected about
800 live oysters and transported them by air to India for
experimental purposes.
11, PAHH/.IN
His Highness the Shaikh did not urrlve At any definite
doclslon regarding the suggestion made by Fishery Kxpertu.in
1949 that the only practicable way fox' the Bahrain Government
to incroaso the supply of fish hove is to purchase a depot ship
fitted up with cold storage which could be sent to buy fish
direct from the fishormen in the Gulf of Oman. Messrs.
London,, were negotiating with
Charles Kendall & Partners Ltd • i
the Shaikh at the end of the year regarding the proposal to
erect a cold otoi'agu plant.
12. BrtLfr OK LANbWl) PKQPKRTY TO FUHKlQHr.MS.
Lust year Ills Highness passed an “aIan" forbidding
further uales of lend to foreigners, He did not however at
that time make till a •Alan" applicable to foreigners who already
possessed landed property in Bahrain, During tins year ho
wrote to the Political Agent (.liking hi in to ir.uk u this law ulau
applicable to foreigners as the unlo of landed property by ono
foreigner to another left a loop hole in the "Alan".
13. COWMMtf.lAh OPPh.tTIONU IN MaHM/IN.
The Adviser to the Government of buhrain wrote to the
Political Agent in December saying that, as ho wishes to en­
courage local businessmen. His Highness'c approval should le
obtained for all foreigners wJsling to open now businesses in
Bahrain. He also caked for the repeal of Iho section of
the 1861 treaty giving special penoiu.ilou to l.rlLluh snhju.is
to trade in Bahrain.
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14, BAHHAlN CBNfJlJB.
A oonsus of the Bahrain population was taken in Parch
for the aocond time in the history of the island, Thv number
of peoplo In Bahrain on the night of tho 3rd March, I960 (the
night on which the counting was actually undertaken) V.uS
109,660. This represented a rise in the population of about
20,000 since the first census was taken in 1941. Out of this
total number, 18,471 were foreigners and 91,179 wore Bahrain
subjuots. From records in tho Passport Office at trie time of
the census, it appeared that about 6,000 persons, who normally
resided in Bahrain, wore absent from tho country. Literacy
amounted to approximately 10/1 of tho totol pppulation (excluding
Europeans and Indiana) and this is not unduly low in view of
the fact that education is a comparatively recent growth.
As & rooult of careful preparing of the ground by tolks and
explanations la which the ftuler himuelf took an active part,
all suspicions as to the roacons for a census were allayed and
the public co-operated whole-heartealy in the execution,
16. CBdTOMft.
«» fovenue from all sources amounted to
H8.03,96,660/-, an lnoroauc of lls.64,074 over last year.