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Manama h tfjnicipolity.

Rcvenuc 1351 - Rs 55,000/-
Expenditure 1351 - 60,900/-
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Revenue 1352 Rs 55,600/-
Expenditure 1352 - r.s 49,400/-

1. The President of the L'anamah :.!unicipal
Council, Shaikh Ilohoned bin Shaikh Isa alKhalifah,
v/es absent in Cairo for about four months at the
end of the year, Khan Bahadur Abdurrehman Zieni

acted as temporary President,
2. Barrett Street. This s^eet, which runs
from the Customs pier up through the bazaar has
been greatly improved and has become the chief
thoroughfare in the bazaar. The south end has

been widened and several shops have been built by
the municipality and giver, as compensation to
people whose buildings were demolished in road

widening schemes, Khan Bahadur Abdul ^ziz Gozaibi
has built a large handsome office on the eastern
side of the road, Ahmed bin Yusuf Fakhroo is build­
ing offices and a motor show room opposite the
customs import yard and several other spacious

shops and offices have recently been opened in
this road. The municipality have decided to
roof part of the street with corrugated iron

supported on v/ooden beams and if this experiment
is a success it will be adopted, eventually, in
other parts of the bazaar, At present the roofs
of the streets are made of matting, which is untidy,
liable to catch fire, and in need of constant

repairing.- .A small portion of pavement has been
built, an improvement which is very useful in a road