Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎46r] (92/669)

170
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lied
roes
undertaken to reduce materially the contracted '/rice. The
result remains to he seen hut the Grovernor-Geiieral lig/jailve
to tne fact that the price of rice to the civM-.pouotfatlcn i
this year will inevitably he based on the Anglo-I rani an .;ii
Company transaction. The proprietors assert, in the meantime■
that uhe Covernor-General ’a intention is mereJy to secure a
share cf their profits.
The price of meat has continued to rise, ];lutton of
Oxclinary goality is now sole at 20 Itials per kilo and good
quality at 25^ Hials, ( yide para 5 of Ahwas diar -v for the first
Iji aii of ^iQ/omhgr) The effect of increased demand has urdeuhtodT
oeen multiplied by various authorities competing against each
other for supplies, A committee of control consisting of the
Area Commander, British Supply and Officers; the lianaver
of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, an American Officer and His
Majesty' s Consul-Generai. has, however, • recently been estah] ■'
in Aiiwa s to coordinate in consu], tat ion with the Go ve rn o ; r- Gen ^ ■ y - •
thf demands of the various supply organisation^fthe'Anglo-Iran■
OIj, Company and the Persian town populations,;
'he Ahwaz Water Supply Company ameuneed on ‘
November that the cost of water w®ulcf be ir-j-'oc J t
0Municipality apparently ratified thss/without ciiesf"
,rr
',’th
The
.. in. spi c 1
ci the Company having increased Its rates by 100
months ago. On being approached by His Maiest.y
0-3 to whether this measure had his appvnva'm th^
General explained that he had no definite control over the
ijuniC-ip^.l.v u/ ouo hi? opinion was recuired iiv the iJl' i msty of
ome twelve
: 3 Ccnsul-General
rH,-., Governor—
Interior in such case?
a he believed he had given a favourable
opinion. He agreed that any increase beyond the 10#^ of ]rst
year was unjustifiable nne under took to nee that there was no
A.-'uuer rase this year, 7hei»e :.c. reason to believe that, as
usna, there ia more in •••.hie than appears on the surface but
the Governor Genera] ‘
if
V
'f been achieve:
* ' "' 3 fis p./omiee the main object will
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npcfl Hall ci,-j
•••" p-f-p aeiL.-ye A^ad igen held its inaugural
fi;'? 1 n ^ 1 fh'JV'J'^‘' T,a n‘''ve.nber under uhe presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Seyei
i/lohj.rvneu At,, .a* urn, ^ i employee of the Gas toms Department e ^he
soc;e ( ,v s objects prof sc- : so oe i/lorvisian socialism of extreme
inr.o c u:-.< u sr»e s s»
A Qaii rai. between the Govern or Gener al and the Chief
of Police has arisen over tne arrest cf the hoarder cf beans
repcrteci m para A of Ahwu_claiy f or the first fortnight of
} 0 Noysm^r, In the oanrse 11 bG 1 ~ on7o^ if.; C'h the CKied^cf^
To.'.ice the GT'vervor General is reported to have sail that his
own olfice and the i^i.nioipa.ui.' , .'<y were the o>niy dg■of» r *tmetite '''hat
were not entirely eorru/dA -he' Chief of PoliceT apparently" '
•\ r f£ erft S c ? t0 his r-rt in the Gassoon“ incident.
re, 0 x,eu with the aories of che Municipality's and TJstanda^i f s
levies on the butchers and bakers, (vide Ahwoo diary para 5
for _ the second fortnight of August,} The Chief of Police
ciairns that he then telegraphed his res: gna t' un to r ‘r»hrar th
a full explanation of the oircumatuacos and necvTed Gin tbe~
C ocm i s a i r. ner - Gene ra _ ? eot thing rsuly -argil? him to carry on.
The 3-vvernox -G-sner el vino became invoivefi in an
undignit led T.’^rrej. with the Go verier
of seeing honest according to the lett
a oise ting of a committee summoned t^-
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ne raw, if weak. At
temands for Hials
— — completing certain municipal
ix o t oc cs ; che governor refused to proceed in the absence of
representatives of the departments of finance and Justice,
w lose presence was, according to him, required by law, The
Director oi tne municipality who is popularly supposed to be