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LAND REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT
(From the report of Khan Saheb Mohomed Khalil Memon, Superintendent, Land Department.)
Land Registration.—There were 869 registrations during 1370 consisting of 559 sales, 214
titles and 96 gifts. The registrations consisted of 558 houses, 162 plots of land, 84 gardens, 27 shops,
11 fish traps and 27 miscellaneous types of property. Registration fees amounted to Ks. 98,505,
which was Rs. 23,500 more than the budget figure.

Sales of Land.—The value of property sold amounted to over Rs. 30^ lakhs, more than £230,000.
The registration fees collected on sales was Rs. 93,481, approximately £7,000. The following were
some of the most important sales completed during the year.
1. A plot of land on Bclgravc Road, Fariq A1 Ham mam, on the eastern side of the old Municipal
Garden, about 17,400 square feet in area, which was sold for Rs. 44,100 at slightly over Rs. 2-8 j>cr
square foot, by the Manamah Municipality.
2. A plot of land at Gharaifa, on the shore between Omm ul Ilassam and Jufair which was sold
by the Bahrain Government for Rs. 73,125. The area was 195,000 square feet and it was sold for 6
annas per square foot.
3. Two plots of ground on the western side of the old Municipal Garden which were sold by the
Municipality to the Bahrain Government for Rs. 89,525 at Re. 1 per square foot.
4. A large area on the shore at Godhabia consisting of about 41 acres which was bought by the
Bahrain Government from the British Government for Rs. 1,44,000. The land purchased forms
the major portion of a site which was sold by the Bahrain Government to the British Government in
1936. It has been reserved as a site for a new Palace which is to be built for His Highness. No registra­
tion fee was charged in this transaction.

5. A medium sized house, in Arab style, in Fariq Kanoo, was sold for Rs. 50,000. It was
located in an important street.
6. Another house, larger but rambling, which used to be occupied by the Eastern Bank, was
sold for Rs. 50,000. It was awkwardly situated and at some distance from any main road.
Proceeds from sales of land by the Government amounted to Rs. 2,30,714. Altogether 30
sales were effected of which 19 were in Manamah, 6 in Muharraq and the remainder in the villages.

A plot of land measuring 14,000 square feet on Daly Road was sold to the Arooba Club at the
rate of 12 annas per square foot, the price to be paid in ten annual instalments. An area of 74.400
square feet south of the Awal Cinema, was given by the Government to the Manamah Municipality in
lieu of the ground around and occupied by the Mental Home which was taken over by the Government.
In Muharraq a piece of land on the north of the town, measuring 76,320 square feet, was gifted by the
Government to the Municipality as a town development area.
Godhabia Housing Area.—At the end of the year all but two of the 49 building sites in this
area had been sold and 19 houses had been built. A few years ago nobody would have contemplated
living on this ground but after the Government had intersected the area with wide roads and divided
it into building plots the public came forward eagerly to buy the plots and in some eases the original
purchasers later resold the land at an extremely big profit. Plots in this area were sold at a uniform
rate of Re. 1 per square foot. A number of plots were bought by Government officials who benefited
by the concession allowing a reduction in the price of land bought from the Government according
to the length of service of the official. Purchasers under this arrangement were debarred from dispos­
ing of the land for 10 years. On the south of this residential area stand the School Hostel and the
Secondary School and on the north side there arc several cinemas. A new fruit, fish, meat and vege­
table market is soon to be erected on the cast, near the sea, and a small police station is to be built
half way down Palace Road. It is probable that in a few years “ New Godhabia " will become one

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