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Stato and Britain would improve if this line could call here
regularly direct from Britain^ Their present tendency is
to discharge Bahrain cargo at Bunder Abbas, for transhipment
hero, and naturally such cargo suffers badly from pilferage.
There is a unanimous opinion among mariners that the
port of Bahrain is dangerous to approach on account of
(1) natural difficulties, reefs etc., and (2) the bad

lighting of the port and its approaches. I.t is considered
that (2) could be very greatly improved by (a) erection of
a powerful lighted beacon on the De slit Al Djebal, whose
light would carry at least twenty miles and warn steamers
away from the reefs and (b) by improved lighting of the port
from the shore itself, which would enable steamers to make

their anchorage at any time day or night.
I am submitting a separate note on this point.
Despite the increase of work, the Customs staff has
not been increased during the past year; and the cost of
the collection of the Customs and Revenue is five per cent.

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