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Maneuiah Municipality.

not be done the owners were compensated.

A wide road running east and west from the Government
school to the sea was made on the south of the town.

About 25 barasti huts were moved in order to make the
road.
Country Roads, arrangement was made by which the

Municipality became responsible for road work and repairs
outside the Municipal area on the main Rafaa road as
far as the end of the date gardens and also the Budeya

road up to JedEafs. This previously was done by the
government but as the municipality have a permanent

staff of road men it is more economical for them to do
such work.
A road was made through date gardens running north

and south which links up the Rafaa road and the 3udeya
road. Previously the country between these two roads
was inaccessible to motor traffic except on the road

from Suk al Ehamis to Senabis. The cost of this road
was small as it was only necessary to make a few bridges
and to level the surface in places.
Widening of Rafaa road. On the Rafaa road through

the '’-ate gardens, there ocurred during the year an

accident in which a taxi collided with a car in which
H. E. Shaikh Hamad was driving and overturned it into
the ditch. Fortunately nobody was injured but the
incident enabled the government to carry out the project

of widening the whole road through the jurdens which had
been under consideration for some years. -ji average cf

15 feet in the width has been added to the v/hole road
from Suk al Ehamis to Raddam al Xawari and mainly wing
to the public spirited example set by Shaikh ^bdullah