Coll 30/5(1) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Bushire Residency (Persian) Jany. [sic] 1941.' [‎265r] (530/938)

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^ (c) It is reported th~t the Gendarmes rat Dayyir have
been tempted thp neenle tn sell their Government
ootTm rifles for 1000 ici^a s ecch. Recently one of the
*v»307ifGendarmes t Oa.yyi r kilted his officer, L ieut . BaharlUj
^r‘nd tried to tc<X€ CLoo riGles r ' 7 ay for Scale to the
Dashtis ; but the Kedkh:!.-. of Dayyir pot information of
this, and arrestee the Gendarme with the rifles.
Captain Dhadrawan, on learning of this incident, tried
to" hire a launch and go to Dayyir with 20 Gendarmes, but
was unable to do so. (he has for the last t^’o months
continually requested Jiis headquarters to provide him
with a launch, and has also suggested the removal of
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*om Dayyir and Lrvar. ;
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The Hon’ble the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. has distributed
presents of Al-Hasa dates to Government officials and
heads of the Departments in Bushire.
VII. FOOD G'JPi _3.
(a) .i foociSCuffs crisis ’ys averted by using che barley
earner'ed (oy the garrison’s animal transport to
literate the tread supply* The 3.3. Hoihow brought
100 tons floe " and 100 tons barley for Bushire, • nd on
1st March the area had about 3 weeks supply of the
adulterated ration.
(b) It has been reported to the Foodstuffs Department
that a consignment of ID bags of sugar and 43 cases of
loaf sugar which were sent to Dayyir under cabotage
three months ago, have not reached the port. The goo’s
’ are entrusted' to one lirza Ahmad Dayyiri who has
tl 3 sol is m. The matter is being
inve ;ti ‘.a tec „
(c) P cmnplaint has been received by the Consulate
Ger. r-’afrom the .j' i':h of Tahiri against the local
. ridir of the Foodstuffs Department, Aqai Araini, to the
. ‘feet that he had misappropriated the sugar allotment
for the three uonths ending 22 nd December 1942. Me
states th-'t out of three thousand kilos of sugar
allotted to the port only 800 kilos were sold to the
nooule at Government rates and the balance was sold
a b c onne rc i a 1 r vbe in the ma rke t.
(cO The Foodstuffs Department at Bushire has begun
selling rice to Government employees. Mach person
is being sold 3 kilos of rice at Rials 5.50 per kilo.
A quantity of rice was also due to be sold in the
market at the rate of Rials 7 per kilo,
end of the period under
taken in the matter.
but at the
cview, no steps had been
(e) The euantity of 20,000 baskets of dates previously
purchased by the Manque Me Hie is now on sale by the
Foodstuffs Department at about Rials 120 per Basket,
rs awainst the market value of Rials 150 each. A few
ilers were entrusted with the sale of the dates;
on their proving, as might have been expected,
apt, the Department took the sale into their own
s. They are selling one basket of dates to each
of a family, and have also opened four retail
reta
but
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head
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3 selling
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in sma/ll cuontitics to other
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