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Education.

Increase in students. The process of the
Department of Education durinc the year has teen

satisfactory, The total nur.ber of students,
including girls attending tr.e ^ov-.rnwenx schools
at the enc of the year was over lloO which is
about 190 more than at the end of t ie previous
year. The increase in the llanarauh school consists

mostly of boys from the mission school and the
school of Ibrahim Arayaah, the latter school is
closing at the end of the school year and it is
understood that the t'ission school is also con­

templating closin- down altogether, In this
event it is likely that next term there v/ill be
□ore applications for entry tc the Ilanonah boys
o
school that the institution can deal with, The
opposition ancn^ the 3hia co.^:unity in Llanamnh
to the ^ovirusent boys’ school which has existed
for some years is now apparently subsiding as at

the end of the year there were 76 Shias at the
ilan&nah school out of a total cf approximately
250 boys.
New developments. ocouxing has been intro­

duced in the -aanamah and Uuharraq boys’ schools
by two of the masters who had experience in this
work in Syria. It is a popular movement and there
is great competition among; the boys to beoome scouts.

On various occasions curing the year they have taken
part in public rvents and curin& the accession cele­
brations they gave an exhibition of drilling etc.

The boys are not only being, taught drill etc. but
they learn ‘the principles cf the movement* Half an