Kuria Muria Islands

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Expenditure on the Kuria Muria Islands [Khuriya Muriya Islands], and details of the next planned naval visit to the islands (1)
• Advance, during March 1963, of £100 to the Royal Navy towards the cost of food, medicines and other commodities for the inhabitants of the Khuriya Muriya Islands (2)
• Press cutting of an article from The Times about the Khuriya Muriya Islands entitled 'Islands of Poverty and Content' (3)
• Covering letter for a statement [not included in the file] of the Royal Navy's expenditure during the visit of HMS Loch Fyne, on gifts of food, provisions and other items made to the inhabitants of the Khuriya Muriya Islands (4)
• Copy of the report by the Captain of HMS Loch Fyne during his recent visits to Salalah and to the Khuriya Muriya Islands (5)
• Future of the Khuriya Muriya Islands, particularly in light of questions over the constitutional future of Aden (6)
• Request for a revised estimate of expenditure for 1963-64 and an estimate for 1964-65 of expenditure for the Khuriya Muriya Islands (7)
• Copies of reports made by Major R Candlish and Surgeon Lieutenant J A Thom of HMS Eskimo, following the recent visit to the Khuriya Muriya Islands, along with a list of stores landed. It also contains a letter from the Political Residency in Bahrain which, in light of these reports, proposes an increase of the yearly amount provided for food and supplies from £100 to £150 (8)