Page 171 - 2 Persian Trade rep Bahrain 2_Neat

Dibai. Tho faros ore cheap.
There io a regular weekly steamer mail service
(B. !,*>. h. C.) from anu ;u India and iraq. The last
and «eut bound aeroplanes of Imperial Airwaya Limited

call weekly. rhe air service is used for co.wnorc:.al
freight.
Social.-
The discovery of oil promises to improvv t'..i
economic condition of tho people. Hie Bahrain Petroleum
Company Limited has provided some relief to une:cployt.cnt,
and work in the bil-fieid io a great attraction for
emigrants from India. There is a cozvainity of abort 70
.Europeans including -.embers of the "ibian Mission.

Owing to little or no acconmcd: lion suitable,
especially for .European ladies, a numnor of reqjests
for permission to land at Bahrain have had to be roilised.
kanamah, the capital town contains two hospitals,
oohoolo (two for boys and two for girls), a Branch of the
eastern Bonk Limited, a root Office, a .’ire-loss Station
and a Branch Office of tho t'osopoPern\a corporation
Limited, who also act as Amenta of tho Imperial Mrways
Limited.
There is a :..untcipal Council in onamah and also
in the town of 'Mharraq. \n electric power station exists

at anaznah and the power is carried by a causav/ay one
a Submarine Caole to nharrac.
fhc Political Agent, Bahrain, ./ho is in close touch
with local and mainlanu affairs, will oe giar. to one..or
any enquiries rcgaraiiv trade from merchants in the
’Jnited Kingdom through the ;Jopart.r.«-nt of c.verseaj trade.
inquiries from India oho:Id be ..uido Uir-u::h tho

Jirector Jenoral of Commercial :ntulli \.nc. at Calcutta.
Time would probably bo saved b,. a-;-'res sing Uia • • • •
latter official diroct > au inforrx;tion on i.out «•..

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