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yinanoial Adviser 1b quits unable to giro to It the
euparvlBlon neaeeeary. As a ooneequenoe the run oval
of Ur d« Orenier would neon elthor deter? 'Ion In ths
hando of inadequately supervised subordinate'4 or th«
appointment of some other foroigner to Bahrain^ probably
lebo effioient. As Ur ds Grenier's salary amounts
approximately to ono per cent, of the nett reocipti of
the Bahrain Cue toms, the question of cost duo a not

oeriouBly affeot the issue.
3. I on in entire eympathy with the polloy of
avoiding undue westernisation, but 1 cannot uee that this
polioy sill be nerved by handing the Customs over to
other adminietration, unloou and until aduoatlon in the
Otate yrodtoee men capable of carrying on the work*
Thu vork of Cue tome adminie tration io a eeparato
toohnioal bran oh of tho iitule adminie trati on, but little

oonneoted with the general uduinlutrutlon, and even in
a country do natlonalletlo in itn reoent. tondenoles as
ferula the benefit of the Belgian Cun to mo off leer o is
admitted.
4. Un my ehort acquaintance with Bahrain 1 ohould
heaitate to expreoe an opinion on the arrangomento there
though 1 cannot help thinking that what is moot open to
objootion io the foroo of Indian armed police under

Britioh oommand — but it in obvious fro-. uiio oharaoter
of the present ruler thut any change must be very graduaJ
and thut a rapid roveroal of polloy would have tho worst
pooalble offeot. Certainly the leant open to objection
ooerno to be the Cuatomo which io carried on in praotioalj

tho same way an the Persian Custom* with the working of
whioh all the reuidontB of Buiiraln are familiar• Zn
any oaso attempts at reform would seem to be beginning
at the wrong end in leaving the sorvlce and removing fefes j
:
effioient supervision, bofofe native 'aupervision, poauibfcj
lees effioient but at all evento roaoonably competent, le
forthcoming