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The rate of freight by the British India Steam also grown. Tln-rc are some 2,500 date trees. The
Navigation ‘Company's steamers was £1 13#. 4tf. above crops arc mostly irrigated, but a Einalha mount
per ton on wool and dry fish and £1 is. on dates and of wheat and barley is grown hj* rainfall alone. The
£1 per ton on general cargo to Bombay and Karachi agriculture of Juhruh might be considerably increased
throughout the year. if more money were sunk in it.
The average rate of freight by the other lines was The next more important agricultural centre is
£1 per ton from Bombay and Karachi. the island of Fai'akuh win re wheat and barley are
. ^ grown with sonic success on the clayey pr.tclns,
Sea Fisheries. also luccrn, melons, and sonic vegetables, especially
TV only truly local produce of Kuwait is that carrots, which are of au exceptionally tine quality,
yieTJed by the harbour fisheries, which area valuable but the agriculrurc of the island* is generally
asset. Besides fioat-and-weight, nets and lines, traps inferior to that of Jahrali.
and tidal weirs, constructed of reed hurdles, are also
employed; the fish enter them with the flowing Rainfall
tide and are left behind at the ebb. The majority The total rainfall during the year was 5*03 inches
of the fish caught is consumed locally, but a small and was distributed as follows:—
proportion is dried and exported to Basrah and April 1923 . •49
elsewhere. October 1023 2-2*
November 1923 •2*
Boat Building. January 1926 -G
Forty-six boats of an aggregate value of £16.533, February 1026 . 1S7
March 1026
•13
were built during the year. Of these three had
carrying capacity of bout 150 tons, twenty had Public Hcs 1th.
eighty tons, three of forty-five tons and twenty of Tito health of the town nmrdr.ed good through'.ut
three tons each. These figures are not included in the y<-ar under review. The c*l:i»f complaints were
the trade tables. of digestive, eye and skin troubles.
Labour. Communications.
The price o; labour remained high throughout During the year under review the comnuiMcndnus
the year; an unskilled labourer earned from Is. >'*•• between Kuwait and ’ir..o weic mueh improved
to 2s. 4'/. a day. a carpenter from 5.-?. •!-•/. to 13*. A-1., by tlie opening of a motor read between Kuwait
a mason from 5$. 4d. to 10s. «S/. a day. a bust builder and Zubair and the estatili.d.nient i f ai; «flvivi i
from 4s. to t?»\ motor set vice by tie Kuw.di-’liaq Motor Tiai sj < i •
Company.
Minerals. The Shaikh granted thi?. Company a cm:m»*:i.:»
The only mineral produet worked is gypsum which am units to a i»i<.!n«p«dv of the transport «.f
mortar, which is nuniifactured by the simple pntss passengers and goods by m .ioi vehicle along il.is
of firing rubbish in broad shallow excavations. There road within his rorriloriis. and the right to hvv
is a large gypsiferous tract on tin* outskirts of K uwai; tolls on private cars t:sh.g the road., in return for
town, and it is found in several other parts of the making the road and ktvpi: g it in repair.
principality. The work on the road has keen well done ard ike
Company ours a fleet of i»»ui Ford cars and four
Domestic Animals. Foid vauertes.
The most valuable domestic animals arc camels, The fare is 1 Is. a scat by car and 9*. Hd. by vatu tt**-
of which there are large numbers. Sheep, goats
and donkey*, of the latter many of a large white
breed, originally from Ilasa. are found in the town.
These arc sometimes over thirteen hands in height, I *T
and a good one will fetch over £45. There are also M nth-. Hl.idl-J ivr |Vt !•» «.-l
y.rli
7urtt»h.
some horses and a few horned cattle. 1r.--. Sm rri«n«
1k.il r..
Agriculture.
Neither Kuwait nor its em irons can boa>t of any i t. ft. t *. 4. i i. 4.
agricultural resources. There are no date planta- ^ayVsr'S* 12 3 « OlK > 0 1C 7
1! Ill 1
«i 17 y
I* 14 3
lions of any value, no fields, and not many kitchen- jucriws 11 in ii o 17 ns 0 13 3
n is 11
gardens. The villages to the South-East of Kuwait /Hi-iii/iyis li l y u 17 4 0 13 3
110 3
o it y
supply a limited but increasing quantity of vege- SSioi!?!*"*5 )«• IS 4 il 17 11 0 13 H
0 13 7
in Ik II
II 17 A
tables and melons. Tlie chief agricultural centre Novemberlyes’ 10 17 9 u 17 y 0 13 9
in the principality is Jahrah. The staple crops arc Down,,,,r 1W"' 1« 13 9 0 17 I 0 IS «
0 17 b
10 7 10
Jui tear) 1920
0 13 4
1956 .
wheat, barley and luccrn, bu.t melons, water-melons, February. 10 7 10 O 17 9 U 1# A
0 13 •
10 6 3
March 1 ‘.>26
0 17 9
pumpkins, beans, and some other vegetables aie