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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/-