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workers will be under the supervision of the
Quarantine iiedioal Officer,
Education. Two small ooontry sohools are
to be opened, one at Jitrah and one at Burri.
These schools wiil satisfy the demands of the

Bhiaa who conplaiu, with some justification,
that while £0Veminent sohools have been estab­
lished in the towns v&icli are mostly hunni the
educational needs of the uhia ooamunity have not
been provided for, Only reading writii£ and ei

simple arithmetio will be tau^h^in the country
sohools.
Efforts are being made to introduce technical
instruction in the I.'anamah and Muharraq boys'
schools. There is today in Bahrain a great

demand for carpenters and mechanics and if boys
oould learn work of this kind at the sohools it
would be of more practical use to them than the
type of education which they are getting now.

Provision has been made for the possibility
of sending six more boys from the Government
schools to Bey rout University,
Publio '..orks. A new custom house including a
flat for the customs Director is to be built on

the shore opposite the open space faoing the north
end of the Barrett road. The present building is
in a dangerous state of disrepair. Originally
it was badly built on roolaimsd ground and evi­

dently the foundations were not oarried down to
the bed rook. It has constantly been repaired
with no permanent suooess. The offices are dark
and-----