Coll 1/43 'Aden. Changes in civil administration in the event of separation from India: Post Office and telephone services' [77r] (153/184)
The record is made up of 1 file (91 folios). It was created in 15 Aug 1933-10 Apr 1937. 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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including the Head Post Office at Aden Steamer Point
and the Post Offices in Aden City and in the islands
of Perim and Kamaran, and will make their own arrange
ments for the supply of postage stamps, forms, etc.
3. The staff employed at Aden is partly recruited
in India and partly locally recruited. His Majesty's
Government will presumably take over all the staff
locally recruited for service in Aden ana for offices
under the Aden Head Post Office, and will ensure to them
their existing scales of pay and conditions of service
in respect of leave, pension, etc. In the case of
the staff recruited in India now working in Aden, I am
to suggest that such staff should also be taken over
by His Majesty's Government if they are willing to
serve in Aden after separation. Those who are unwilling
so to serve will have to be compulsorily retired, except
in so far as it is possible to provide appointments for
them in India. I am to suggest that His Majesty's
Government should meet a proper portion of the charges
involved in each compulsory retirements i.e. pensions,
gratuities, etc. The Government of India will endeavour
to find appointments for as many as possible in India,
but they suggest that the cost of the retransfer of
staff to India should equitably be borne by His Majesty's
X Government. a statement is enclosed giving particulars
of the staff at present employed within the Jurisdiction
of the Chief Commissioner of Aden. The question of
sharing ordinary pensionary charges will be covered by
the reference regarding financial adjustment in para
graph 2 .
present charged on correspondence between India and Aden
and vice versa . I am to say that on strictly economic
4
The Indian inland rates of postage are at
grounds
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The file contains correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly), the 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. Political Department, the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry, the Government of India Department of Industries and Labour (Posts and Telegraphs branch), and the Director General for Posts and Telegraphs (India).
The correspondence dated between 1933-1935 concerns the installation of a new telephone system at Aden, receipts and expenditure, and a review of the rates charged.
The correspondence dated between 1935-1936 concerns arrangements for the Aden postal system in the event of the transfer of the civil administration to the Colonial Office. It includes discussion of staff terms and conditions following the transfer, possible participation in the Empire Mail Scheme, the continuation of cash certificates and postal insurances, and the possible establishment of an Aden Savings Bank.
The correspondence dated 1937 concerns the inclusion of Aden in the Universal Postal Convention, and revised rules regarding life insurance and endowment assurance for Aden postal staff.
This file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references found within the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).
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- 1 file (91 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 92; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 1/43 'Aden. Changes in civil administration in the event of separation from India: Post Office and telephone services'
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- front, front-i, 2r:91v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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