IOR/R/15/2/1004

The file relates to the administration of a scheme to improve the quality of the Clerical (later Ministerial) Establishment in the Persian Gulf Residency generally, and specifically in Bahrain.

The file opens with a report by Lieutenant Colonel Lionel Berkeley Holt Haworth, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 3 January 1928, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, entitled 'Revision Scheme for the Improvement of the Conditions of Service of the Clerical Cadre of the Persian Gulf Residency', and a letter supporting the proposals from Sir Frederick William Johnston, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 9 December 1928, also sent to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. The report by Haworth states that the standard of the clerical staff of the Persian Gulf Residency was very much below that of staff in other first class residencies, principally because the terms offered were insufficient to attract the right calibre of staff. Four reasons were offered for this: the unhealthiness of the Gulf; the fact that Indian clerks were working overseas; the general improvement in standards of living, which meant that employment opportunities were available elsewhere; and the fact that some posts, particularly in the Vernacular Office, offered scope for dishonesty. The main conclusion of the report and the subsequent letter from Johnston was that members of the clerical cadre should be offered improved rates of pay.

The file also includes papers relating to the Government of India's approval for a reorganisation of the whole Persian Gulf Establishment under the terms of the revised scheme, including nominal rolls of staff, January 1929 to April 1931; and papers relating to the appointment and pay, both collectively and individually, of members of the Clerical (later Ministerial) Establishment of the Political Agency, Bahrain, including some nominal rolls of staff, May 1931 to March 1944.