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^.ioh) BRITISH RESIDENCY,
BAHRAIN.
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D^otjoh N.o._LQ5E. October 22, I960.
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My Lord,
I hnvc the. honour to refer to Sir George Middleton* 0
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dcopatoh No.46 of the 1 7th of May, 1960, about our policy
in Bahrain, in paragraph 1 0 of which Hie Excellency referrod
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an economic Gurvey of Bahrain which his staff were under­
taking with the rcGourcjeG at their diopo6al. It was hoped

that sufficient statistical information would be forthooming
from local sources for U6 to present a picture of the
Shaikhdom* 0 economy, v/l ioh would! enable us to 6ee more

clearly what measures ore now nepessary in the economic field*
2. Unfortunately the nany enquiries which wo have made
in Bahrain reveal a con plot0 absence of the nocessai'y
statistical information. The Customs Department produce
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monthly figures of imports and re-exports by value, but this
is the sum total of economic statistics produced by tho

Bahrain Government. Tlie Director of Customs confessed
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himself unable to produce further, more detailed, statistics
and the Secretariat has. failed to produce any useful
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information. V/e have al60 becn( disappointed in our hopes
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gf extracting from the Bahrain Petroleum Company any firm
estimate of the future of oil in Bahrain. After referring
ovjr request to his head office in New York, all tho Resident
Vice-President was able to tell us was that oil production
/would. • * •
The Right Honourable
The Earl of Home, P.C.,
eto. eto. etc.

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