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The licensing (and re-licensing) of all drivers was also carried out by the
Department. 100 drivers were examined for driving licenses during 1358, out of
which 52 passed.

License holders for all motor vehicles are being obtained from England and
will be fitted to wind screens. Each taxi driver is also being given a numbered
disc to wear.
Danger and directional traffic signs fitted with reflex lenses are being erected
at suitable points, such as dangerous cross roads, concealed turnings, etc., in the town
of Manamab.

VI. Government Technical School:
The training of boys as mechanics and carpenters was carried out under the
supervision of the State Engineer as in 1357, and one boy ('from the mechanical
section) was sent to the workshops of the Bahrain Petroleum Company for his final
six months’ training. Three more boys from this section will be sent early in 1359.
The preliminary training received in the School has proved profitable to the boys as
ground-work for the more advanced training in the Company's workshops.

New Government Hospital—Naim:—
The State Engineer’s Department carried out the electricity and hot and
cold water installations for the portions of the Hospital which were completed, Lady
Dootor’s and Matron’s flats, Nurses' quarters and Femalo blocks. This includes
three A.( \ units.
Two Beeston hot water boilers, one of 185,000 B.T.U's capacity and the
other of 580,000 B.T.U’s capacity, were installed, the smaller to provide hot water
for the Dispensary, and the larger for the main Blocks.
Anti Malaria Campaign:—
In connection with the anti-malaria work now in progress a number of
artesian-wells within the Manamab Municipal boundary wore grouped. The objeet
of this is :—
(*1) To conserve the water supply, as, owing to the number of wells sunk
at present, the general head of water is tending to fall. More wells
than necessary exist within the town area, and the waste of water is
great.
(2) To construct at outlying points (where no wells exist) public drinking
and washing places fed from the grouped wells, and thereby eliminate
the shallow wells which exist in most of the houses. These house
wells are a danger to public health as they encourage the breeding
of mosquitos.
Oil Royalty and other gauging:
The whole of the oil produced by the Bahrain Petroleum Company field,
amounting to 1,008,080 tons (1,112,620 tons in 1357), was gauged and sampled by
this Department. The decrease in 1358 was to some extent due to the bringing in
of crude oil from the California Arabian Standard Oil Company’s field on the
.mainland of Arabia, the field production in Bahrain being slowed down.
The Arabian Oil is brought over for refining, and the Bahrain Petroleum
Company’s refinery has been worked to its capacity for most of the year.
Oil is received from Arabia at two points, the Sitra aud Zellaq Terminals.
Various grades of oil for shipment were also gauged, sampled and tested for the
Bahrain Petroleum Company, twenty-five ships in all being certified during the
year.