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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the Year 1937' [21r] (41/72)
The record is made up of 1 file (34 folios). It was created in 1938. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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II. Press. —There are nominally four newspapers published periodically
in Kerman. So far as this Consulate is concerned nothing objectionable
was published during the year.
9. The Shah's Birthday.
This was celebrated in Kerman on 14th March by a reception given by
the Governor, and the day was observed as a public holiday. Only about
50 people of the 200 invited were able to accept the invitation which made
morning coat and top hat compulsory. H. M.'s Consul attended.
BANDAR-ABBAS.
1. British interests.
I. Coronation of His Majesty King George VI. —The Coronation of His
Majesty King George VI was celebrated at the British Consulate, Bandar
Abbas, on the 12th May. The function was attended by the local Governor,
the Officer Commanding the troops. Chief of Police, the manager of the
National Bank of Iran, and a few local merchants.
II. Gray, Mackenzie and Company Ltd. —The Company maintaned a
branch at Bandar Abbas throughout the year.
III. Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd. —The business of the Company
continued to increase, in absence of any foreign competition. Supplies of
kerosine oil and petrol for the eastern Iranian markets, and Sirjan, Kerman,
Rafsinjan, and Yezd, arrived at this port.
The Company's geologists visited this area during January, February*
and December.
IV. Frank Strick Lines Ltd. —The company entered into a contract
with the Iranian Government to purchase during a period of 12 months 15,000
tons of red oxide from the island of Hormuz at a wholesale rate of £3-5-0
per ton, of which 4,593 tons were shipped up to the close of the year.
2. Foreign interests.
I. Russian. —13,245 bags of Russian loaf sugar were imported at
Bandar Abbas for the Iranian Government during the year.
3,200 bales of cotton were exported to Russia.
II. Japanese. —268 bales of cotton piece-goods, and 1,000 chests of tea
were imported at Bandar Abbas during the year.
III. Italian. —Mr. T. Pastori, Italian, arrived from Muscat on the 22nd
April with the object of collecting about 10,000 Iranian labourers for road
making in Eritrea (Abyssinia). His quest was not successful.
3. Local Government.
I. Governor. —Aqai Ismail Bahadur was Governor of Bandar Abbas
throughout the year, a post he has now held for the past six years.
II. Bank-i-Milli. —Mons. H. Freudian, Inspector of the National Bank
inspected the local branch in December.
The question of opening sub-branches in Minab, Lingah, and Charbar
was under consideration, but is still in abeyance as the reports submitted
were not favourable.
III. Justice. —This department moved to Ginu Hills for the summer
instead of closing down as hitherto.
IV. Police. —During the year the police posts at Lingah, Henjam, Kishm,
Jask, Charbar, and Minab, were attached to Bandar Abbas.
An Inspector of Police from Tehran visited Bandar Abbas, Charbar,
and Lingah during January.
Passport Department, —The police were in charge of this department
throughout the year.
Orders were received during May to refuse exit visas or to issue fresh
passports to Iranian subjects unless the applicant was in possession of foreign
exchange purchased from one of the authorised Banks. Iranian subjects
residing abroad and holding Iranian Consular passports, and foreign subjects
and foreign Consulate's official employees were exempted from this rule.
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The file consists of Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1937 (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1938).
The Report, prepared by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , summarises important information relating to the Gulf and notable events in the Gulf during 1937. The Report contains a review by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , and separate sections on each of the agencies, consulates, and other areas that made up the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . The information provided includes lists of personnel, movements of British officials and foreigners, local administration, military and naval matters, aviation, the political situation, trade and commerce, medical reports, meteorological reports, and related information.
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- 1 file (34 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents at the front of the Report, on folio 3.
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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover, and continues through to 36 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- Title
- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the Year 1937'
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- front, front-i, 2r:35v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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