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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎15r] (40/414)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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(c) Cinemas .
A 16m/m projector was supplied early in the year,
and with this bi-weekly shows were given in the local
schools during term-time throughout the year. The 35m/m
projector continued to do very useful work both in Bushire
and in the villages further inland. The projector was
also taken by sea to the port of G-ananweh, where a cinema
show had never previously been seen,
A film show was arranged for the members of the
Reading Room Club, once a week throughout the year, except
during Moharram.
(d) A nglo Persian Relief and Reconstruction Fund ,
The Anglo-Persian Relief and Reconstruction Fund
continued to do extremely useful work throughout the year.
It supported at the Caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). Shakari 86 paupers who
would otherwise have been begging in the streets. A.P.R.
R.F, medicines were dispensed free of charge to large
numbers of sick people in the towns and villages of the
Bushire area, where "no medical service is provided either
by the Persian Government or by any private medical pract
itioner. During the course of 56 expeditions made by the
Mobile Dispensary during the year to villages outside Bushire
a total of more than 9000 sick were treated.
The balance of the cloth purchased from India by
the local committee of the A.P.R.R.F. was distributed per
sonally by H.M's Consul in Borazjan, Ahram, Ganaweh, Saadabad,
Darwahi and Dehkoneh. A distribution of cloth was also
made at Lingeh. As the poor in this area have been unable
to buy any cloth during the past five years, the free
distribution of cloth through the A.P.R.R.F. has been greatly
welcomed, and our action in helping both to cure and clothe
the poor has been widely praised,

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The volume contains typescript '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 1945' [1946] and typescript '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 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Political 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.

The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.

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1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear 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. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.

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