'File 10/16 Legislation for preventing the import and sale in Bahrain of foreign imitations of British designs' [‎4r] (9/74)

to received similar goods after a week which, he offered to
sell thera at ns. 10/- in transit (the price quoted by Messrs.
..'ilson of Glasgow is £ -/14/6). I mean that the price of Rs 10/'-
which he quoted is unsuitable but naturally the merchants
refrained from buying from me. Ten days later I tried to sell
part of the goods to Ibrahim Muhammad Hadhlaq_ & Hamad bin Paris
(Nejd merchants) and made arrangements with Abdul Aziz al-Ali
al-Bassam for the remaining .art. Ireviously I enquired from
Manchester and learnt that he had 3 bales expected to arrive
per S.S. Shahpur. I offered him through Abdul Aziz Hs. 10/8,
i.e. As. 8 more than the price for which he offered to sell it,
but he refused to sell for sor® silly reasons. His intention
was to bring the market down and thus to cause me losses, "hen
he learnt that I sold the goods to Ibrahim hadhlaq & Hamad
Paris he tried to prevent them from paying for and receiving
the goods by telling them that the goods were inferior ani
that if they bought from me he will send goods to r.ejd on his
own account and will make them lose. I think that all these
attempts of his are punishable.
On Saturday the 16th ^arch 1940 he told ■ a jab ALi, in
the course of a conversation with him, that he intentionally
caused me a loss of Bs. 400/- in the "Shumaq" transaction and
he showed pleasure at this. If you summon Fajab ^li aid ask
him officially to give evidence I do not think that he will
say anything except the truth. He tries by every means to
prevent buyers from buyingj by using threatSyentreaties, ■ tricks
and the like. There are other incident s resulting from his
actions all of which appear to be to cause me losses for his
own benefits.
I therefore request you kindly to give me an appointment
to see you or to see someone-on your behalf so that 1 may
show him the letters received from Messrs. ohasha aria from
the Bank and to receive from him directions about the necessary
steps which I may take to stop these losses which I incur
while at the same time he (Zeloof) is causing loss to British
trade as my goods, as you may be aware, are British and he is
thereby causing to decrease imports and the public increase
their purchases of Japanese goods instead.