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The Sunni Wakf Deprtinent iB under the direct control of tho three Sunni
Kadis and little is known of the management of its finances.
Education.

Progree* During the year a new school was opened on the out-skirts of
Budcya to provide for the needs of Budeya, Draaz and Beni Jurara. As the people
of Budeya are Arab:*, Sunni, and the inhabitants of the other two villages are Shias,
one Shia and one Sunni teachers were appointed. The arrangement has, on the
whole, been satisfactory in spite of the fact that in the past there was bitter ill
feeling between the different communities in this district.
Over a thousand students are now being educated at the Government schools
which exist in the following towns and villages :—
Muharraq Boys’ School
Girls’ School
Manama Boys’ School
Girls’ School
Hedd Boys’ School
Rafaa Boys’ School
Suk al-Khamis Boys' School
Sitra Boys' School
Budeya Boys’ School
Technical School. Important progress has been made during the year in
developing technical education in the Boys’ Schools. In Manama a new building
opposite the Boys’ School was completed and taken over as a carpentry and engi­
neering shop. There are six boys in each of these classes and another 6ix boys
in the Muharraq carpentry class. A regular course, lasting for two years has
been arranged in these subjects but it was found necessary, in order to persuade
boys to stay on at school, to pay them a small wage. Students at the technical
school are granted an allowance of Rs. 15 per month of which thoy receive Us. 10
monthly and remainder on completion of the two years’ course. Without this
financial inducement boys will not remain at school when they know they can
get paid work elsewhere.

The carpentry classes are mainly occupied with making furniture and have
produced some very good work during the year. The engineering class has only
recently begun.

Athletics. Physical exercises are now included in the programme of the
Manama and Muharraq Schools under the direction of one of the new masters who
is an experienced athletic instructor. There has been a visible improvement in
the physical appearance of the boys in the Manama and Muharraq Schools during
the last year or two, this is partly owing to the general improvement in local
conditions and partly because the boys keep regular hours and have been playing
organised games on four or five days in the week instead of loafing about.
Student* Abroad. One young woman is being trained as a school teacher at
the British Training College in Beyrout, it is proposed to send two more girls to this
institution next term.
One youth is being trained in Shera Law and religious education at the
Islamieh College at Lucknow. Two sons of Shaikh Mohamad bin Isa-al-Khalifah
are being educated, at Government expense, at Beyrout University, and about half a
dozen other boys from the Government schools, sons of local merchants, are being
educated at Beyrout at their parents’ expense. About a dozen boys, who were
previously in the Government schools, have been sent by their parents to schools in

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