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(c) ^ number of pamphlets dealing with Post-bar plannin e
in Great Britain were received during the past fortnight and
have been much appreciated by the more educated class of
Persian. The Persian edition of one pamphlet dealing with
the Beveridge plan is pixmng most popular and there is ^uite
a good local demand for Persian publications on the subject
of culture, trade etc. This ty^e of material is now having
more prop-^cmeU value than v/ar posters and the like.
(d) The M build up*' of the Tehran conference recently
received from the Public helations Burea» has attracted
considerable notice in the heading Boom. The new series of
articles ‘'Ganj-i-bokhan*', in Persian and English; are another
popular item but the '‘hizan*' news letters are not appreciated
by many .
(e) The cinema van has been doing good work and among
the performances snan^ed during the fortnight a final showing
of ’’Desert Victorj •' was the most successful.
(f) public o. inion on the war has shov/n no change s an
Allied viaotory still be ing taken for granted.
VII. POOD SUPPLY. . '
(a) Akabarian has signed a new contract v/ith the
Bushire Khar bar part me ..t for the delivery of 250 tons of
■wheat from Dashti.
(b) The Hiat Daudi contract for the supply of wheat bj
pathullah Khan has now been transferied to the Fli^rbgr Depart
ment (vide paragraph VII(a) of last diary] and a balance of
approximately 7GO tons now remains to be delivered b„ the end
of Bsfand (the latter half of Llarch) .
VIII. SHIPPI NG aPD OCiMMERC S .
(a) Alima d Pezeshk ; the military, doctor at Bushire
asked the Ittimadieh mill to sell him 2C S CCG metres of cloth
at a reduced price. Ur. Agar^ howe ve r > stated that he was
unable to supply the cloth in view of other commitmentSj and
a dispute is now in ^rogress.
(b) The market in general has been dull and clearances
frrm Customs have been negligible. borne inferior quality tea
recently changed hands at Rials 44 per-lb. and the price of
sugar has drop.-e a from Rials 95 to Rials 90 ^r kilo.
(c) The i .laud transport situation is bad and very few
lorries have been -sing the Shiraz road, local merchants are
most dissatisfied ith the Bushire branch of the Idareh-i-
Barbari-Rah who prove of very little assistance in lifting
merchandise .
(d) S.b. "KIBG YUALT’’ arrived from Bombay on the 12th
January and landed 59 packages of miscellaneous goods.
9 dhows totalling 255 tons arrived in the port during the
last fortnight from gjii-ar and Persian ports and discharged
23CG packages in addition to 1326 baskets of dates. One
peisiun dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. left the port with a consignment of sugar and
tee for Daiyer.
n)
follows:-
prices during the first half of the month were as
Rials per kilo.
Mutton
Ghee
Rice
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