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Court in consultation should decide whether a case was to be
deemed important for this purpose, and (c) that appeals from
the Lower Bahrain Court would be heard by the full Upper Court
(including the Adviser).

5. I have taken advantage of the holidays to discuss with

Belgrave the question (of which the Court work forms part) of
freeing him for important advisory and supervising work, which
will increase rapidly as money becomes available from the oil
royalties.

6. V.'hile we appreciate that it is most desirable to employ

the Ruling Family as far as possible, we agree that it would be
well nigh impossible to employ any one of them as an Assistant
to the Adviser owing to their lack of education or experience.
On the other hand we think that certain of them might well be
trained to take over specific posts in the administration.

7. Belgrave himself is much in favour of a British Officer
os an Assistant to him, to whom he could delegate in particular,
some of his supervising work. V/e are also considering the
possibility of having an Assistant of the type of a Registrar or
Extra Assistant Commissioner, on experienced man of (what we

call) gazetted status, who would be responsible for the adminis­
tration of the Adviser*s office and for the proper checking and
puttLng up of schemes, especially from the financial point of
view, but would have no executive powers unLess directed by the
Adviser to do some specific task. There are a number of

important considerations affecting this question and I should
like, if I may, to discuss them with you on your forthcoming
tour.

0. In the meantime I enclose a table showing roughly how
Belgrave and I visualise the distribution of work in the Bahrain
/Government