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CONFIDENTIAL The Residency

r Bushire,
D.O. No. 658-S the 1st 1944.

Would you please refer to your demi-official

letter No. 3806-N/44 dated the 27th April 1944
regarding education in Bahrain? !

2. I enclose a copy of Hickinbotham's reply, and
would be glad if you could let me have an answer

regarding his queries in paragraph 4. When I
was in Abadan I was greatly impressed by the

technical school run by the Anglo-Iranian Oil

Company, and I think that the best thing for the
Bahrain Government will be, since practically all
the pupils of the Technical School aim at securing j

employment in the oil company, for B.A.P.C.C. to

be made to run the school themselves. At the
present moment they disparage the products of the

Bahrain Technical School, as they well may, for
after seeing the one at Abadan even a layman can

see that it is quite valueless.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Peel

and Hickinbotham, and will go into this
when I next visit Bahrain.

i
Lt. Col. R.R. Burnort, O.B.E.,
Joint Secretary to the Government of India
in the External Affairs Department,
NEW DELHI

YG.