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rood where there is so much motor traffic.
3. Road widening. A narrow lone in the

centre of the bazaar was widened by the total
removal of two shops and by reducing the depth
of 11 shops, these shops although smaller than
before, are now let for higher rents.

About sixty feet of Government Road (the sea-
road) has been widened on the south by nine feet.
It was agreed when the road was built that the

owners of land inside the road should allow the
municipality to fill in 9 feet along their
frontage. Similar work has beer, done on the
3aladiya road, from the Government Road to the
Municipal building which has been widened on

one side. This rosd was treated with concrete
ana bitumen about four years ago. The work was
done by a foreman from the Basrah Municipality

and it has lasted extremely well; when oil can
be obtained locally at a cheep price more roads
can be improved in this way.
A portion of Government Road opposite the
Fort has been resurfaced.

A road has been partly filled in west of the
Suk al-Arbaa across a piece of unreclaimed water
inside the Government Road.

Fences vrore built on the Sehlah road in com­
pensation for owners fences which were removed
when the road was widened lest year and a long
ditch was filled in. The Bahrain Petroleum Co.

have now undertaken the upkeep of this road and
have greatly improved the surface.
The ’Municipality were permitted by the government
to cut a roau through the government land opposite

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