IOR/R/15/2/1322

The file contains correspondence between the Political Agency at Bahrain and the Political Residency at Bushire, and later at Bahrain, as well as with G W R Smith, Director of Customs, Bahrain; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government; Gordon Noel Jackson, Political Officer on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah; A J Wilton, Political Officer Qatar; and Khalil bin Ebrahim Kanoo [Khalīl bin Ibhrāhīm Kānu].

The correspondence concerns customs and import yard duty exemptions, as well as free motor licences, for goods imported into Bahrain by employees of the Agency, Residency and the Victoria Memorial Hospital through various vendors, including Kanoo, Naji Murad, Messrs Zeloof and Messrs Ali R Reza. These goods include motor vehicles, refrigerators, desk and ceiling fans, wireless sets, cable tables and platinum and gold rings imported by Agency staff. The correspondence between folios 35 and 70 includes details of providing Belgrave with formal lists, and subsequent amendements, of officers entitled to exemptions. Folios 66 and 67 concern the payment of Municipal Tax at by the Agency and Residency at Bahrain.