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Pearl industry.

illegally employed to dive. But v/ben a foreign
nakbuda sues a Bahrain nakhuda in the Bahrain courts

for employing one of his divers without a ,Tbarwaff
the Bahrain nakhuda in accordance with the Bahrain

diving laws, is forced to pay the whole amount of
the diver’s debt to his original nakhuda.

The Bahrain nakhudas have no objection to the
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rule being enforced among themselves „ in fact^is very

necessary in order to prevent nakhudas stealing each

otherfs divers, but they consider that there should
be a different rule in the case of foreign nakhudas
suing in Bahrain.

If, for example, by Kuwait law a local nakhuda

who steals a Bahrain diver is not made responsible
for the diver’s debt,equally so when Kuwait nakhudas

sue Bahrain nakhudas for taking their divers without
"barwas” the Bahrain nakhudas should not be made res­

ponsible for the divers’ debt but diould be compelled
to return the divers. The Bahrain nakhudas want

reciprocal measures to be adopted in this matter.

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