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Estimate. Actual Remarks.
Expenditure.
Rs. Rs.
Salaries 76.73° 78,267 War allowance extra.
Books and stationery *1,000 7.899 War prices.
General 3.27° 4.932
Hostel 10,000 6,936
Medical 7,000 6.625
Religious schools .. 1,400 1.328
Suspense 4.985
102,400 110,972

The chief source of income was the Hostel and Secondary School fees. These were a little
under the estimated figure of Rs. 5,200 because four students left unexpectedly at the beginning of the
year.
Rs.
Hostel and school fees, local boys 2.45°
Hostel and school fees, 4 Muscat boys .. 503
Hostel fees, 4 Kuwait Government boys r.272
Hostel fees, 5 Kuwait Oil Co. boys 768
4.993

The cost of educating 1,200 boys for one year thus works out at Rs. 105,000 or Rs. 87/8 per boy
per year.

Government Girls’ Schools. .
The progress made in the girls’ schools during the year was satisfactory but no new schools
were opened. There was a large increase in the number of students in the Manamah and Muharraq
schools, which are now full to their capacity; in each of these towns about a hundred girls were refused
admission owing to lack of accommodation and teaching staff. Until more qualified teachers are
obtained from abroad the enlargement of these schools cannot be considered and war conditions make
it almost impossible to recruit women teachers from Syria. The local teachers are keen and hard
working but they are neither old enough nor sufficiently experienced to carry out their duties without
constant supervision. All who arc capable are already employed.
In Muharraq school the new kindergarten classes have been very successful. The school was
provided with special kindergarten furniture and the children are taught handwork and suitable
subjects. The possibility of making a separate kindergarten school in Manamah for small children
is under consideration.
A needlework exhibition in which work from all the schools was shown was held at the Palace,
Manamah, by kind permission of His Highness Shaikh Sulman. This was the first occasion in which
all the schools combined in one exhibition. Ladies were admitted on one day and men on another day.
Large numbers of people saw the exhibition and everything that was for sale was disposed of. Some of
the work was of an extremely high quality.
Manamah and Muharraq schools both presented plays for the Fighter Fund from which they
raised Rs. 745. Muharraq school also organised a play in aid of the local orphanage which produced
Rs* 435 and both schools raised funds for buying clothes for very poor students which amounted to
Rs. 485.
During the year Dr. Snow, the State Medical Officer, examined the eyes of all girls in the Mana­
mah and Muharraq schools and a number of girls were treated in the Government hospital, sonic of