Development programme of Trucial States

This file relates to the Trucial States Development Scheme. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Renewal and revision of L W Huntington's contract as supervisor of the Trucial States agricultural scheme (22-23, 26)
• Need to revise development estimates to include Buraimi, given its recent occupation (24)
• Urgent request for and subsequent approval of the 1956-57 development programme, including authority to spend (25, 27-28, 34-35)
• Summary of agricultural schemes to be undertaken, including: experimental work at Ras Al Khaimah; negotiating the supply of vegetables to the RAF at Salalah; drainage provision and irrigation; and the establishment of an agricultural school (29)
• Efforts to recruit a geologist and a surveyor; and the problem of financing the carry-over of the Buraimi rehabilitation project (31)
• Education programmes in Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman: the Rulers are becoming impatient for financial help from HMG and may approach Egypt (32)
• Breakdown [enclosed], under sub-heads and items, of the 1956-57 Trucial States Development Fund (33)
• Proposed five-year plan for economic and social development of the Trucial States. It includes the background of the plan and the reasons for developing the Trucial States (36-37)
• Review of the agricultural programme in light of progress made at Ras Al Khaimah (38)