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the end of the year. In fact the formation of the first Company was sup
planted by another called the “la’timadieh Weaving and Spinning Com-
pany, Bushire, the formation of which Mr. Agar, Husain Aqa la’timad,
of the firm of Haji Ali Akbar Shirazi and Sons, Manchester, had suggested
to the local merchants when he visited Bushire in July. The Governor at
this time being Aqai Ahmad Sadri, and the merchants being more in favour
of this new Company than the Steamship Navigation Company, which
they could not control, obtained sanction from the Central Government for
the importation of a weaving and spinning plant and another for dyeing
purposes. All these had been brought in by the end of December and the
construction of a house, bought outside the town for installing the plant,
was being accelerated.
Education .—The local school examinations were held on the 1st March
and 57 students sat for the examinations. The budget allotment of the
Education Department, Bushire, was put up by Rials 200,000 (£2,500) and
sanction was conveyed for the construction of two schools in Lingah and
Charbar at a cost of Rials 200,000 (£2,500). The Education Department,
Bushire, had made arrangements in the local schools at Bushire and the
Iranian ports for some 2,600 illiterates to be taught to read and write.
They were instrumental in encouraging the discarding of the veil and in
November introduced public speaking on ordinary educational subjects.
They made some progress in collecting 5 per cent, out of the rent of ‘waqf’
properties (religious endowment properties).
Bushire Municipality .—The Municipal Council could not resume the
work of levelling the town streets because of a deficit in its budget allot
ment. It retained a staff of 70 persons to look after the sanitation and
lighting of the town. It also retained ten beds for the lying-in ward of
the poor of the town in the local infirmary, a local Doctor to look after the
patients free of charge, a local Government school, a small asylum for a
few lunatics and an isolated house for accommodating some 20 lepers.
Only in June did the Council interest itself in market prices and fixed!
the price of a pound of mutton at Cts. 70 instead of Cts. 80 previously.
The Council received its budget allotment of Rials 25,000 a month,
although irregularly.
SECTION 4..
MILITARY AND MARINE.
Army .—In January Brigadier-General Ibrahim Zand, the Officer
Commanding the Army Division of Ears, visited Bushire on inspection.
The Recruiting Office, Bushire, re-opened with its members, viz., the
Governor as President, a Doctor from the Iranian Navy ^^ e ^chants
Iranian Military Department, the Imam-i-Jumah, “^““ned in
thtdttrkS 11 The^na^esof^outh"' had" attamedmmta^gewere
equal number sent to the Military Barracks, Bushire.
In February a plot of land was bought outside the town and the con
available and at times they too ^ f • f ac t or y. Building mate-
employed by Mr. Agar for the eoiis ni - d . fficult for the inhabitants as well
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