IOR/R/15/2/1363

Papers relating to the Bahrain General Merchants' Association, which was a self-constituted body of merchants. The file includes a letter from the Honorary Secretary, Bahrain General Merchants' Association, to the Political Agent, Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), dated 10 August 1939 announcing the formation of the body; set of rules and regulations dated 7 August 1939 (repeated later in file as the Association's 'Constitution'); correspondence sent by the Association to the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield), dated 7 April 1942, requesting the lifting of a ban on the export from India of certain articles 'badly required' in Bahrain, including 'methylated spirit in drums' and 'looking glasses', with note by the Bushire Resident (Charles Geoffrey Prior) dated 15 June 1942, stating that 'Until we can start getting wheat and rice and other food stuffs, I am not going to bother about the minor amenities of life'; and a letter from the Adviser to the Government, Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), to the Honorary Secretary of the Association, dated 17 October 1950, explaining what measures were required to form a properly qualified and organised Chamber of Commerce.