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Tv/<» lQlclio Imvo l)oon allocated Tor building email workmen'a houses
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while|i .will bd leaood at low rents to Aral)a who now inhabit Baibas tisf;%
Thic is the first experiment that tho government has made in ! •
housing echo mo a; if it proves successful tho project will bo
extended. * On•’productive sohomos tho otate will spend 15'lakU^*. . ,
3-* Unproductive .works include the completion of ix public" Iloait)i;:,:Jjfe
building, onljtho A\/ali road, the commencement of* u-.nev/Mvpmeniev^; ‘/• v'iji;
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iniatGrni.ty.l.hodpital, and ‘a Mined 1 bungalow for a ;lody;dbc’tor.
W?.;.Schoor on the sen front ut Muharraq .Will;,-be, comp^t.Od^,
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Additional,-married quarters for .the Police are •'to b.e built ; no ary ! '•V-w’'
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Manama fortjVa<transport- abed with ancillary buildlngo -istoibjp/.'i •
icompleted o.iy tho land oast of the fort, w)\cre all g o v ornmont. /{}:
transport v/ill bo. concentrated, and orders have been*placed •fo^r'bypi^
-'customs ajiodG.. Accommodation for Foreign! school tonehers. is

liecoming n problem so suitable quarters are to be 1 }m
.the Technical' Uc.hool and the workshop* During the year..the /State'’V&
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bought buck a,;pioce of land on the shore at Koxaibia which- IndjvbepijV^'
sold to the British Governwio»l. in 113(5, it iu proposed that a new V'.Vri
pnlaco for the Rulor should bo built <>n this site and for this !: " /;&••
purpose 3 lulche have been allocated much of whileh will bo opont
on building materials to l>o purchased from tlu: United Kingdom*
Tho sum of l\ lalchs will be spent upuu roads and pavements. During
the last two youro the Public ./orbs vp rtnumt has o:«i*x\led out
cx tensive i**md work in 1 -a i iniua, though I eg! tin*;* toll y this is the
responsibility of tins lianama .....lioiiisl nuthox*ities, they howuVwV,
hove not sufficient funds or uifci.*eut to und..ria*l;o the »;or];.
6. In "Hotcs on the Budget, 1371" tins ;iaymout to the Privy
Purse is not included and tin: expenditure uiulur l.i.ffwrent headings* ••
has been shown on a u-rcentage basis, expenditure by the Public
•7orks Department on schools and hospi tals has be*.u included under
the headings of M.-pio. tion and Public ileal tin

7. In tho sui..mary of Revenue and penditure for 1370 the ; ..;s
uninvested balances appear to be large. Arrangements for further

investments were being made ft the end of the your but the : *. * .5
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