Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎157r] (314/669)

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AHWAZ DIARY
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/ (1) Colonel Underwood, Political ^iiri- c ^rj\A^a4^f2a.Mcecently
n/ / K , r v>sippointed Political Adviser to the Oil Fields also,) returned
' to Abadan on the 13tho
II e Movement of Persian Officials.
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1344
(2) carhang Komayuni visited Behbahan on the 4th and
returned on the 7th having visited Gach naran and Ram Hormuz,
He visited Dizful, Rhush and Rhushtar from the 9th to the 11th,
III
(3)
Economic
v The Governor-General has been pressed to make
adjustments in the price of meat which is now sold at the
high figure of 40 rials a kilo. He is making inquiries into
the matter and has got no further.
(4) The Director of Finance has requested the British
and American Commanders to furnish him with a list of their
contractors, dating from their first operation in this area,
with full details of contracts, in order to collect income
tax from the latter.
(5) There is a stock of some 600,000 metres of cloth
in the Customs, hut the Director of Finance i« unable to ohtain
permission to use this 0 Could this he obtained a ration of
cloth would he sold in Government shops’ without it supplies
are short.
( 6 ) The controversy over the railing of dates to the
north continueso Wagon space has heen allotted to 26 leading
merchants at 10 tons per person and to 21 secondary merchants
at 5 tons per person, Thi
[iiito unsatisfactory owing to
the difficulty of collecting full wagon loads,
(7) The theft of a lorry load of tyres has heen discovered,
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and Gray Mackenzie clerks appear to
he implicated, as well as an Amnieh officer.
( 8 ) Mr. Solomon has visited °usangird and hopes to
improve the ration situation there as soon as new coupons are
received from Tehran.
IV. Election s*
(9) Aghai Farhudi has heen elected deputy for Dasht-i-
Mishan by 6000 out of 8000 votes cast. The election of Aghai
Rultani for Behbahan is almost completed<>
7. Health.
(10) The Anti-Typhus Commission, of which the Governor-
General is president, have decided not to institute a new tem
porary hospital« I have urged them rather to finish the
isolation block in the Municipal Hospital, of which most of
the work is already done,
VI. Agricultural & Irrigation.
(H) Professor Winsop,accompanied, by Dr. Myer an American
agronomist on the staff of visited Harnidieh, Ahu Dasht
and Rhushtar from the 8 th to the 12th. Contracts were given
/out