'File 28/63 A Anti-locust work: routine correspondence' [‎116r] (227/534)

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1M0. ^oi.CTol
to,
Thfc political A^cnt,
hi-ain.
British ^^feiicy, ^harjah
uatec 6th March 1946.
Confidential.
bahrain" receipt.
morancium,
subject:- incufci: ^nti juocu&t belc.- aLiona
Keference your memorandum jn i c^u /316 aeted the ^7th of
fi/.arch 194b on the above mentioned suL^ect#
The GoverriTient ot incia u^prees letter referred to hf&
not yet been received in this office.
3. on the 2Cth of inarch i sent a telegram (copy attachecj *
to the L'irector of locust uontrol asking him to send the money
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for the Delegation to me direct by airmail. According to his
reply (.copy attached; the money has been sent to you fend l
am expected to take delivery of it. ,The position as knov.n to
me therefore is that Jthe sum of ^.42,000/- has been sent to you
ana the arrangement Vvhereby funds Vvere to heve been craven from
the bushire Treasury has been cancelleo.
•4. In January the uovernment of mdia v»ere pleasec to
sanction ^.42,000/- for the control operations but so far
nothing has been received to meet the expenses, despite the
fact that the Delegation Leader arrived here on the l^th of
January i.e. more than 2^ months ago. Fortunately no loccsts
have been fcuna 5 with the result that expences have been more
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or less confined to the pay of orivers etc. which i h^ve been /
able to meet out of the tunas kept by this Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. . The
location of locusts v.ould hfve entailed large' scale operations
requiring the employment of labour, the payment of which v.ould
leve exceeded the limits of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. funos at my disposal.
In other worcs the Delegation would not have been able to
function and the v.hole object of its presence vould have been
celeateo* AP^ t t ii'om thie tinencial arrangement s j every phase