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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [25r] (54/1028)
The record is made up of 1 volume (510 folios). It was created in 19 May 1927-14 Nov 1939. It was written in English. 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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Consular Statistics —-
British subjects registered
Passports issued .
Passport renewals granted
Visas granted
Documents legalised or attested
Pees levied ....
Nil.
9
5
219
13
£148/19/0
II. BRITISH INTERESTS.
Trade .—The restrictions on trade with the United Kingdom and India as
recorded under Kerman, apply equally to Bandar Abbas.
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. —A full-time agent is maintained at this port. Sup
plies for south-east Iran are now discharged at Bandar Abbas and imports
have increased accordingly. The local price of petrol was lowered from rials
27 • 15 to rials 24 • 85 per 4 gallon tin.
During the year about 560 labourers were recruited in this district for work
in Abadan and the Fields, but most of them were sent back because they ap
proached the Iranian Naval authorities instead of the Company with a com
plaint about their pay.
A seismic party of 19 geophysicists, surveyors and observers arrived from
Abadan in December to survey an area immediately to the west of Bandar
Abbas. Formations suggest a possible oil pocket at this site and extensive
tests will be carried out during January. The party will then proceed to
Qishm Island.
Messrs. Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd .—This firm retained a representative
at this port mainly for their British India Steam Navigation Company
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
business.
Fra?ik Strick Lines Ltd .—The company, through their local agent, Messrs.
Dorabjee & Sons, entered into a new contract with the Iranian Government
for the purchase of red oxide from Hormuz Island for a period of 3 years.
During 1938 8,518 tons of red oxide were shipped by this company.
III. FOREIGN INTERESTS.
Representation .—There are no other foreign representatives at this port.
Trade .—The principal imports via. Bandar Abbas were sugar (Russia,
Belgium and Holland), piece goods (Japan), ironware, girders etc. (Germany
and Belgium), chemicals (Germany) and glassware (Japan).
Exports included cotton (Russia and Germany), wool (Germany and
Holland), goat hair and dried fruits (Germany), carpets and pistachio nuts
(U. S. A.).
IV. LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Governor .—Aqai Ismail Bahadur vacated the appointment on the 9th
April on transfer to Bam. The new Governor, Aqai Muhammad Zandniapui,
arrived on the 27th December. There were two acting appointments in the
interim.
Customs and Finance .—Azizullah Mina was the Director of Customs and
Finance throughout the year. Central Government inspectors visited Bandar
Abbas and the subordinate posts of Jask and Charbar in March.
In May an insurance premium of one rial per 1,000 ad valorem was
imposed on all goods passing through the customs house.
Bank-i-Milli.—Abvl Qasim Saba’ai succeeded Fatahullah Pirmuradi m
May as manager of the local branch. In February orders were received from
Tehran to withhold 1,000 rial notes from circulation owing to the presence of
a number of counterfeit notes believed to have been brought into Iran fro
India. . .
A sub-branch of the Bank was opened in Minab in July.
Justice .—No important case involving British subjects came before le
local courts during 1938.
2/(S) EAD
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This volume contains copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire and printed at the Government of India Press in New Delhi for the years 1926-1938.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland
- Administration Report of the Kerman and Bandar Abbas Consulates
- Administration Report for Fars
- Report on AIOC [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Southern Area
- Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections including the following:
- Visitors
- British interests
- Foreign Interests
- Local Government
- Military
- Communications
- Trade Developments
- Slavery
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written by 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. .
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- 1 volume (510 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 512. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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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