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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [57r] (126/414)
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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IX ROYAL NAVY
The following ships of the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy
visited Kuwait during the year:-
H .M .I .3. ^Investigator'*
H.M.S. ,f 3eabelle n
H.M.S. "Shoreham"
ROYAL AIR FORCE.
l^th February,
9th November.
31st December.
The R.A.F continued to maintain their signal detachment, aerial
navigation beacon, and Rest-house throughout the year, and further in
creased their detachment by stationing two seaplane tenders and E5 men
at Shuwaikh.
X. KmVAIT OIL COMPANY
At the commencement of the year the company was still working on
a shut-down basis, but during the first quarter of 1945 work was begun
on a hydrographic survey and the testing of proposed sites for loading
tankers. Late in March the Company was authorised to begin work on
the 30,000 barrels per day crude oil export scheme. Two brackish
water wells at a point about 20 miles W.N.W. of Burgan were sunk, and
on their completion work was started on the well reconditioning pro
gramme. A party from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company^ Pipe-line
Construction Department began to arrive in October and their work has
progressed satisfactorily up to the end of the year.
A contract for the construction of tankage was placed with the
Motherwell Bridge & Engineering Company who commenced their work in
the beginning of November and have made fair progress.
At the year f s end the Company 1 s personnel strength amounted to:-
Senior Staff 79.
Junior Staff 68.
, Foreign Artisans 55.
Labour 894.
In addition approximately 307 contract labourers were employed.
The company hope to be able to export crude oil by May, 1946.
Sir William Eraser, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company accompanied by Messrs E.H.0. Elkington and
J.M. Wilson, directors, visited Kuwait on the 27th November.
21 • EASTERN G-ULF OIL COMPANY .
The company's personnel and equipment were taken over by the
Kuwait Oil Company on the 1st April, 1945.
XEI. IMPERIAL BANE OF IRAN .
The bank had another satisfactory year and maintained the con
fidence of the public, as is shown by the increase in their private
deposits during the year of about three and half million
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
Only w one bad debt {of Rs.25,000) was sustained and it is unlikely
that more than a fraction will be recovered. An unusual feature was
the absence of demand for rupee coinage. Instead of these being
withdrawn the bank T s holding of coin increased by about Rs.3,50,000.
2111. VISITORS .
A considerable number of service personnel visited Kuwait during
the year. Accomodation was provided either at the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
or at the
H.A.F. rest-house.
XIV. METEOROLOCrlCAL
Total rainfall during the year
Maximum temperature {In September)
Minimum temperature (In January)
8.75 inches.
115°
38°
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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