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Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’ [27r] (53/320)
The record is made up of 1 file (158 folios). It was created in 11 Oct 1937-25 Nov 1942. It was written in English and French. 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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2. Abadan is in practice a private port of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
and the Iranian authorities allow no passengers or goods, other than for the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, to land there. The ships dealt with in the
Abadan Shipping Office are tankers loading Oil Fuels and Merchant ships
belonging to or chartered by Messrs. Frank C. Strick bringing material for
the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
The Abadan Shipping Office deals with no ships unconnected with the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
3. Ships however, do not observe holidays or office hours and between
4 and 6 ships arrive at or leave Abadan daily, Fridays and Sundays included.
The work is so heavy that I do not think there is a holiday in the year on
which the services of the Shipping Office are not called for, and the working
days are few on which these services are not required after office hours. In
fact the situation is such that it is not a question of which day the clerks
will have a complete holiday, but on which day Fee No. No. 96 will be charged
in what would otherwise be “ Office Hours Following are the sums collec
ted during 1936 (other than under Fees 95 and 96) on Fridays and on Sundays,
which shows that there is but little difference between the pressure of work
on either day bearing in mind that the amount collected on Sundays is for
Urgent Work and that collected on Fridays is for routine work :—
SUNDAYS £43-13-6.
FRIDAY £94-13-0.
4. A fair consideration should, I think, be given to the clerks. If they
work on Fridays when the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Offices are closed and
routine work is slack they may well be wasting their time, with little work
other than urgent matters to deal with whereas on their Sunday holiday they
may be called upon for urgent work and find it to be routine. Again on their
Sunday holiday their friends are at work. If they take a Friday holiday,
they will not be called upon except for urgent matters since the Anglo-Ira-
nian Oil Company Offices are closed and further they are able to make that
kind of personal friendship with the Company’s staff which goes a long way
to smooth over the minor difficulties which may well arise between Govern
ment servants and servants of a large firm.
I am of opinion, therfore, that the Abadan Shipping Office should be
closed on Fridays and if you have no objection, I propose continuing this
arrangement.
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Enclosure 5 to S. No. 42.
Memorandum from the British Vice-Consul, British Consular Shipp
ing Office, Abadan Reach, to His Majesty’s Consul, Basrah,
No. 575/1, DATED THE 31ST DECEMBER 1936.
When the duties of the Acting British Vice-Consul, Abadan Reach were
performed by the Assistant Port Officer, the Iraq Government gazetted holi
days were observed. These, as regards Christmas, were Christmas day.
Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
2. On the transfer of the Shipping Office to the shore in February, 1933
and the appointment of the Vice-Consul at Khorramshahr as Vice-Consul,
Abadan Reach, subordinate to the Consul at Basrah, the custom arose for
the Shipping Office to conform to the Khorramshahr Vice-Consulate hours.
3. As the Shipping Office is in no way administered by the Government
of India but by the Consulate Basrah, I can see no justification for this. How
ever Christmas Holidays on the Indian Scale i.e., 24th December to 1st Janu
ary were observed in 1934 and 1935 and fee No. 96 was charged without comp
laint by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
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Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department), collated into yearly collections under the heading ‘Iran Series’. The original correspondence was sent by British representatives in Iran (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran) to the Foreign Office. The correspondence concerns: the announcement of laws, decrees, regulations, and budgets by the Government of Iran, the texts of which were frequently published in the newspaper Le Journal de Tehran ; reports from British consular officials covering a range of subjects, including commercial activities, foreign relations and the commercial activities of foreign individuals and companies in Iran, provincial affairs, and the activities of the Shah; in 1939 and 1940, reports concerning the impact of the Second World War on Iran, with a large number of reports from the Press Attaché to the British Legation in Tehran, reporting the dissemination of propaganda and public opinion in Iran.
At the end of the file is a single item of original correspondence, sent by the Secretary to the Government of India. Dated 24 August 1942, it announces the discontinuation of the printing of the Persia [Iran] series for the duration of the war (f 159).
A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Iranian Government laws, regulations and announcements that were published in Le Journal de Tehran .
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (158 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 160; these numbers are written in pencil 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 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:7r, 8r:11r, 12v:14v, 16r:16v, 20r, 23r:32r, 34r:41v, 42v:48r, 50v:55r, 56r:61r, 63r:65r, 68r:69r, 71v, 75v:77v, 79r:81v, 82v:85v, 89r, 91r:91v, 92v:93r, 94v:96v, 97v:101r, 102v:108v, 115r:118r, 124r, 125r:130v, 132r:134r, 136r:139r, 141r:141v, 145r:146v, 149r:151r, 152r:153v, 154v:159v, back-i, back
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