'File 6/1 I Aviation Imperial Airways' [‎4r] (22/416)

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British rcesi&ency cc consulate-lieneral
isushire, the 2.9th june 1932.
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,*iil you please refer to your jj.u. no: 96 of the
2ora; sune i-o2, regaraing calls at nuwait by imperial
Airways.
it is * x tninK, a little difficult and at the
present moiaent very inopportune to raise the question of an
aunitional motor service oetween nuwait and -asrah. firstly,
as you tfiiow, the whole question of the nuwait rest and
xelegraphs is at zhe present moment in the balance, xhe
imperial and international communications company are rather
appienensive lest the taning over the nuwait rest and
ielegraphs should involve them in loss, and i think it is
quite probable that if they were confronted with an. extra
expenditure of ns. 300/- a month, they would certainly refuse
to Wxxe it over, secondly, x imagine that the number of
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retters to oe aespatched by
to as* any rostal bervice to pay an extra ns. 3600 a year for
tne conveyance of perhaps 20 or 30 letters seems to me to be
of question, j. am afraid that i am not prepared to press
the 'Iraq post and telegraphs authorities in the matter at the
very moment when i am pressing the imperial International
communications company to taxe over the nost and telegraph
ctuce. t would suggest that you should accept the arrangement
tnat has been made and then if you can show that there is a
reasonable amount of mail to be picked up at nuwait, there is
-t the least doubt that Imperial Airways .ill agree to stop
there regularly irrespective of passengers, but if it is a
question of perhaps half a dozen letters it
J-etters, it is really hardly
reasonable to ask them to do so.
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