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poaslbllltlos of running a service of their Company* a fillips
between Indio end the Persian Gulf, but nothing materialised
before the end of the year.
IB. POST OFFICE.
Hflflaaaii MiiiiaiXfiii*
Number of registered letters
received 64020
Number of registered letters
posted 40331 422
Number of psrosls received 13976
Number of parcels posted 2211
Amount of Monoy Orders sent to. 200212
Amount of commission realised to. 37B2
Total sale of stamps to. 320070 to. 3060
On the 1st July a new Poatnl Agency was opened at Awali
within the confines of the Bahruin Petroleum Company area, The
poatel traffic of this now Agency wes

, Amount of Non ay Orders despatched to. 47073
Amount of Commission realised to. 921-9-0
Total sale of stamps to. 74610
Postage Franking machines were introduced In December at the
Luhraln Potroleum Company. This will affect postage uWup 4
tales at Bahrein to tho extent of hs.f.,000 to 1x5.6,000 pv.r month.
19. ADMlHIiiTKATIoU (»K JWiTICIS.
(1)
1743 Civil Units, 260 Criminal Cases, and 23 listule
Cases were dealt with by tho Agonoy Courts during the year.
There was no session esse and no insolvency proceedings werV?
registered• Cusgs of profiteering increased from 3 to 3 and
cuues of smuggling decreased from 6 to 2.
(11) Loonl Courts.
No major .crime cumci before the hnbralti Courts this
year.
20. mim..
strength on
1-1-60 31-12-60
britiah 1 2
Indians and Pakistanis 4 4
Arabs 286 289
Clerks 8 11
Followers 33 33

332 m
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Inspector H. Coohrane, whose sorvlcos we:e loanee to
the Government of (jator during lust year, resigned and ,'jub
Inspector J, Hyde was promoted to Inspector.
There was one case of drowning and ono case of suicide,
in another case of attempted suicide the person wos successfully
treated at the hospital. Two Air France passongu. planes orashod
in the sea off Uedd in the middle of Juno, and 86 persons lost
their lives as a result of it. There wero 866 canes of thefts
as compared to 321 during tho previous your. Traffic and road
accidents amounted to 103 mb compared to 120 cuues lest yoar.

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