1011/1/3-)/56 THE BATRA DI PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED. AWALI, BAHRAIN, PERSIAN GULF. PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT. 19th December, 1956. LOCAL PRESS REVIEW NO. 215. This hans all been beforecirculatedexcept the manescy ate member of sune ofiteLew comacib am 18.3+4) Official Newspaper No. 183. This issue of 13th December 1956 contained inter alia thefollowing: 1) Government Notice No. 61/1956: "As Muscat Government do not allow the entry of holdersof Bahrain Passports unless they are in possession ofa visa, therefore as from 1st January 1957, thereshould be visas for Bahrain on all passports of Muscatsubjects coming to Bahrain," ا وا ۱۶ ". Sa./ C. Dalrymple Belgrave. مي 2 Dated: 6th December 1956. / Sega (). Textual amendments to Government Notice No. 45/1956. ve 3) notice from the Court of His Highness: stThere appeared before H.H, the Ruler of Bahrain, on 10thDecember 1956, in his palace at West Rifaa, all the members of thenew councils who were recently appointed. These councils are:the Municipal Councils, the Councils of Trade and the PearlingIndustry, the Councils of Minors! Estates and of the Sunni andJa'fari Waqfs and the lagriculture and Water Board. The membershipof these councils and boards totals fifty persons." His Highness delivered the following address to themembers who attended: "Bahrain has been exposed during the past three years, toa series of incidents and disturbances which has greatly affectedher notable trading position and had an adverse and tangible effecton the public interests and the machinery of the state. We do notwant here to go into details about the harm done to Bahrain, for - 1 -
