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handled them. I think the Bahrain Government liavo made:.a
great mistake in uending G boys at a coot of Bo l3,00.0/r :
bo far a fiold au Boyrout. Thooe boyc do not appour to
have been uolcctod by examination and their parents are
well ablo to pay for their own education thomoolvcs,
threo of tho boys being the oono of mombero of the ruling:

family who are already in rccoipt of allowanceo of. . ,
Ro 0,000/- and Bo 3,000/- por monuom from the State, Bad •
thio sum been spent on a well qualified head master and
a ocionoo master, one of the existing inefficient lower .
middle ochoolo could have been made into a roally good •
secondary oohool and theoo boyo educatod in Bahrain, One
at loast hao already managed to acquire a markod American
accent and I think the State could huvo achieved good •
results with far less oxponditure by sending them to
a. t
Baghdad, Nor is Bey rout, Y/hich concentrate a in^small
area the moat unpleasant attributes of tho Levant, the •
ft
place fe which one would choose to oend a. child^at the : I-
most inproBsionablo period of hio life,
7, l£r, Belgrave deserves great credit for tho tranofor
of the Shiah Waqfn from tho Q,adhis to a popular ooramittee.
Thoy have already mado great strides, and have discovered
by poroonul tours that thoro are many Waqfs in outlying
villages whoso existence was unknown. Mombora of tho • ■ :: %
committoe ure usually housed freo in villageo they visit,
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and the new arrangement hao proved so satisfactory that
thoro is little doubt that the Sunnis will soon bestir
themselves and take over thoir Waqfo from the three Qadhis,
Y/hen this is done it ohould bo poosible to opon many
primary schools all over the island at no extra cost to
tho State,
G, The amount spent undor the hoad * Medical * is,
I consider, far too small, I wn told by those who choulctw
be in a position to know that the obst/ctrioal barburitiop

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