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GOVERNMENT, OF .!BAHRAIN.
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Confidential. BAHRAIN RECEIPT.
D.O.Mo. \flL- Bahrain, August 25, 1945.
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Bahrain Stato Offioials.
During the war and especially during the last
twolve montha the State has lost a numbor of its
senior officials both British and non-British, in
many eases these people havo not boon roplaced.
2. At the beginning of the war Mr. Furbor was Ffcfsi
employed as oil Inspector and Assistant to the State
Engineer, when the State Enginoor was on leave ho
acted for him and much of the transport work was in
his hands. lie resigned to take a commission in the
Array.
3. The Principal of the Technical School was a X
British official, Mr, Hutchings. Lately ho undertook
the work of oil Gauging in addition to his duties at
the school which in any case only occupy the Principal
during nine months of the year. Ho wont on loavo at
the beginning of the summer and was to have returned
in the Autumn for a short time to continue working as
oil Inspector until a permanent man was appointed to
this post. He has now sent in his resignation. This
is not surprising us the prospect of returning to
Bahrain for less than a year under somewhat difficult
living conditions was not an attractive proposition.
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4, Group Captain Leigh was appointed State Engineer
on a two years contract from December 1944. An exten­
sion of this period is not very probable.
5. Tho Superintendent of the Public Works Department,
Mohamed Jufar, who was made a IChan Sahib in June 1944,
failed to return after spending the summer of that year
on loavo in India. It became evident that ho preferred
to rest on his laurels in India than to return to Bahrain.
6. Hussain Effendi, the Egyptian Agriculturist, who
was on loan from tho Egyptian Government having completed
the period for which ho was seconded returned to tho
Ministry of Agriculture in Cairo. While on loavo from
Bahrain he married an Egyptian lady who ho brought here
and her intense dislike of tho place was tho main roason
for his not wishing to take a new contract.
7. It is unlikely that tho Accounts Officer, Mr.
Braganza, who has completed eight years servico, will
roraain much longer in Bahrain. For health and family
reasons it is likoly that ho will soon wish to return-
to India.
8. I made enquiries from tho firm of Redwood, consulting
Petroleum Technologists, about obtaining an oil Inspector.
Tho torms whioh they suggests
Tno torms whioh they suggested, which included tho appoint­
ment of tie firm as Advis ora oVj petroleum to the Bahrain
Government, appeared to be extremely high, an annual pay­
ment of £2,310 and also passages, transport, board and
lodging for tho Inspa otor and his wife similar to tho
provision whioh is made fa' Bapco offioials of his status.
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