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Demands for reform, 1935, 1938-1939            187
                      Copy of Uoport dated the 26th October 1933


      PiAla  Comments.                        Report


                                Yesterday evening I was informed that
                         the persons who moved the question of reforms
                         in Bahrain on behalf of the nationals of Bahrain
                         are ten in number - 5 Bahranis and 5 Arabs - and

                         their demands are as follows
                         1. EDUCATION
                                 They want that the presont Inspector
                         of Education and the schoolmasters to be replaced

                         by some better teachers as the Inspector and
                         schoolmasters are not efficient and 3ince the
                         appointment of the present inspector about 9
                       5 years ago, not a single boy who passed the
                       5
           No.         8 examination and left the school has been able
                       5
                       fi to work even as a junior clerk.

                          2. LAW COURTS
                                 The present Bahrain Courts Judges are
                          Shaikh Rashid bin Muhammad al Khalifah (father-
                          in- lav/ of His Highness), Shaikh Ali bin Ahmad

                          of Rafar , Shaikhs Mubarak and Dai'j sons of
                          His Highness Shaikh Hamad and Shaikh Muhammad
                          bin Ali, and Shaikh Ali bin Muhammad (who sits
                          with I.A. on the Junior Joint Court). They say
                          that all of them are ignorant of law, have no
            True          judicial experience and even some of them are

                          illiterate. In all their judgments which they
                          have passed in the cases brought before them
                          they, have always simply said "The Court deemed
             Yes          it necessary" to give such and such order, with­
                          out giving any grounds for delivering such an

                          order. Moreover the hearing and disposal of
                          cases are delayed for considerable time and
                                                                    some/-
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