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A water storage tank is needed for irrigating the north part of the garden. The
entrance and guard room are in a dangerous condition, being part of the original
building. More married quarters are required but this year they have been post­
poned. An ammunition magazine is to be built underneath the new tower to hold
the increased quantity of ammunition which is now kept in the armoury.
c. Schools, Rs. 10,000.
The open yard on the west of the technical school is to bo roofed and made
into another room and a walled compound is to be built on the south of the school.
This space is required to accommodate the Muharraq carpentry class which has been
transferred to Manama.
The Manama school is now not large enough to accomodate the students and
two new class rooms and an office and store are to be added by utilising part of the
existing veranda and the bays of the central hall. The class rooms are overcrowded,
stuffy and in some cases badly lighted.
It i6 proposed to build a two room school at Naim for the religious school
which is at present in the house of the Appeal Kadi, Shaikh Abdul Hussain.' A plot
of land, which is said to be Wakf, will be utilised for this purpose.
/. Transport Building Rs. 10,000.
Two new garages are to be added to the transport building with rooms above
for the staff. The existing garages are not sufficient to accommodate the number of
cars which are dealt with by the Department.
g. Passport Office. The building now used as a passport office and telephone
exchange has been let to the Indian Postal authorities as a post office. A uew pass­
port office is to be built on the ground immediately west of the customs house, facing
the customs square.
The old building is to be repaired and made suitable for a post office. The
telephone exchange will remain where it is but a new staircase will be built to the
telephone office which will be shut off from the post office.
It would have been possible to let this building on very advantageous terms to
looal shopkeepera but in the interest of the general public the Government- has let
the building to the Postal authorities at a low rent in order that the Post Offico
should be in the centre of the town.
h Miscellaneous The wooden stairs at the Palace which lead from the
ground to the first floor are narrow, low, awkward and undignified. They are to be
replaced by a flight of stone stairs outside the oentral tower leading up to the centre
archway which will be used as an entrance.
There is no water supply at Hawar except the old cisterns or catchments
which were built many years ago by the people of Hawar. Most of the, cisterns
are out of repair and do not hold water. They are to be repaired
A small mosque is to be built in the northern village which will be used by
the Polioe garrison and the inhabitants.
Certain bills are outstanding for the building of the Gozabia House which
has been let to the H.B.M’s Political Agent and is oooupied by the Assistant
Political Agent.
A drain to the sea to carry off surplus and used water from irrigation
channels is required at the Budeyaa experimental garden.
The publio works programme is a heavy one, apart from the Manama-
Muharraq bridge all work is done directly by the Department and it is probable
that not all the items will be undertaken during the year.