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(Kanomali Municipality)

Abdullah bin Isa and some others none of the owners
of- the gardens from whon ground was taken demanded

any compensation for date trees or land. About 400
date trees were cut down but except in the case of
two v/akf gardens no payments were made, the fences
however were rebuilt at the expense of the munici­

pality. This road is the most used end most import­

ant road in Bahrain and owing to its narrowness and
its many blind corners it had become very dangerous.
It was unsuited to much motor traffic end a particular
source of danger were the heavy lorries and tractors

used by the Bahrain Petroleum Company which travelled
up end down the road several times daily, The new

part of the road is now being levelled and the ditches
are being filled in.
Road work by the Bahrain Petroleum Co. During

the year the Bahrain Petroleum Co. have done a great
deal of useful work on the roads which they use and
owing to this the government has been saved considerable
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expense in the upkeep of roads. A grader has been
used very effectively on the Uenamah - Rafaa - Sekhir
road and a small portion of it has been raised to

prevent the usual flooding during the rains. The
Company constructed a new road, with an oiled surface,
from below the Rafaa hill to their camp and on to

Al-Amr. Al-Amr can now be reached from Ilananah within
an hour, before the new road was made it took consider-
ably longer.

Petrol Store. A petrol store v/as built at Suwefieh,
on the shore about one mile west of Kanamah. The store
is 100 ft x 80 feet, built of stone, cement, iron girders

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