'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎104v] (208/416)

A representative of the Syndicate from Tehran, said to he a Polish- Sub
ject, visited Kerman m February to study the
Agriculture. question of improving the methods for pre
paring dried fruit for export.
Unusual frosts in the early spring caused considerable damage to the fruit
blossom.
There was decrease in the amonut of wheat and barley harvest in the
vicinity of Kerman town, during the year, due to damage done to the under
ground water channels by the floods of the previous summer, which has been
estimated at 500,000 Mans. It will be some time before all these channels can
be restored to their former condition.
Locusts .—No locust invasion of the province was brought to notice during
the year.
Mirza Mohamad Ali Khan Dabir Uahi, the Chief Census Officer for Area
o ■ A t T No. 6, including Kerman and Persian Baluchis-
_ J ' fan died in June and Mirza Abdullah Khan
Isfandiari, a Census Officer on leave from Tehran, was placed in charge until
the end of August, when, having been summoned to Tehran, he handed oyer
acting charge to Samzadeh, the next senior official. Murtiza Mirza Qahramani
was eventually appointed Chief Census Officer for this area in October and
remained in charge for the rest of the year.
Sartip Farajullah Khan, Director-General of the Census Administration in
Persia, arrived from Tehran, on a tour of inspection, at the end of November
and returned to Tehran in the middle of December.
Qahramani visited Iranshahr and Khwash at the end of the year to estab
lish a Census Office for Persian Baluchistan.
In spite of many warnings issued to the inhabitants of Kerman, there are
still a large number of people who have not yet applied for a paper of Identifica
tion. In accordance with a circular received from Tehran at the’end of the
year, the ( ensus authorities have started sending men round to each house and
calling upon each person to produce his or her Identity paper.
^‘ 0( °l Poetics. I he fall of Timourtash and the arrest of the War
i mister, at the end of the year, apart from giving rise to many wild and con
ic mg rumours, have created a subdued feeling of resentment and suspicion
agains 1 le present regime, especially among the disaffected, whose number is
decidedly on the increase.
. ,. P owe r of the Mullahs continues to be on the wane, though there were
mcica ions at the latter part of the y r ear of the local authorities being more iiy
clmed to humour this class.
Jm 0 Muhlirr ™ cer emonies in the early part of May passed off quietly and
enrtflilpfl ™J Tlie • P rocess i 011 s were if anything further
. / -it c ^ as ^ m ? heads, which was not attempted even hi out of the
way villages m the province, is already a thing of the past
Bairing a few anti-British articles, for the most part copied from Tehran
Press. papers, in connection with the Anglo-Persian
nothing objectionable in PrPi i w ^ om P an y affair and the Basidu incident,
year. ° D ' ]ectl0nable to interests appeared in the local press during the
regular publication°there papers, which have maintained a more or less
soL tfme St0Wed .
obtain by printino- notions I , ' V a handsome income which they hoped to
province! they too ZZla ZT W V'’ lth the r^trafioii of property in the
Office. A contract, however S'alrfh , establis ] lm . ent °f the Registration
with the Editor of the ‘ Quh'i alrGac ^y been made m Tehran in the meantime
in the latter paper A s the Jeh£m ’ for . tlle P^ation of these notices
been agreed to give the hulk of * 1 -,° ie P rGS ® nta tions made to Tehran, it has since
local papers. e rGmai ning work to the two more permanent
charge of the Health^Depa^rtmVnf'^’p 01 '' ® ullrab Barkurdar, remained m
epartment m Kerman throughout the year.