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•MIT iL-J Ar •/ s?- HO*0/830 of 1942,
Offloa of the roXltlool Resident
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in the Poroian Cvilf,
MTV ■— T qj b Camp,Bahrain*
Bated the 2nd September, 194£*
mi 04-—1 T'
To
I L» I I Jtf«P-p/U-)l ij2U- His Highness
Shaikh Salmon bin Hamad
^ l>- Ms- Oi 0^ -- Al Khalifoh,
Ruler of Bahrain*
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f-^1 </■ Jly esteemed friend,
JuL*—- jjtjft b—**) Both Colonel Prior and Major
j—)lj •—i.ijl Jl Alban wrote to your late father Hie
J—*>■ y-.«J I I Highness Shaikh Sir Hamad bln lea
^J Ij—I Jl V^_J V oalllng hie attention to the ill effeota
«jj—II ,j y-jl *L-4 —^>0* ii* Jl of the wastage of irrigation wator that

'rt-M Cx./^ Cr*1 b—1 J J--- is taking place in the gardens of
0«JJ—i*- Bahrain due to the sinking of an exoess*
J pr* >L—11 ire number of wells and failure to con­
L-fa jl.. ■■»vlur-f J ^j2---- j I JjJO--- _**j I trol the water rioing from them, and

^l»- ■?JI IjI^ suggesting the stops that ehould be
taken to prevent further wastage*
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Having heard that the wastage
was oontlnulng on the 22nd August 1
o*3 L——fJi
vieited some of the gardens near Zellaq
in the oompany of Mr* Belgrare and Mr*
■^—b & /- ^ i ■ « |<J !■* I ji Jjfi
v^Jb *^1 —Jl ^ jI Oodfrey who le the Bahrain Petroleum
Company's expert in thooo matters* X
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j U U—...-a was distressed to soe how imioh good
water is running waste into tho sea
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and how oorlouely oomo of the wells
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liK^JI Ji jftl have already been affeoted by thie
wastage* ao Colonol Prior foretold it
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has in many oases already beoome
neoessary to use pumps*
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