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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [101r] (206/1028)
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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The troops left for their summer residence (Ginau mountains) on the
14th July, and returned to Bandar Abbas in September.
Sarhang Nasrullah Khan, Director-General of Military Music, arriv
ed from Bushire in January and left for Kerman.
The famous Abdul Hussain Kamoran surrendered with 126 of his
followers in April. As reported he was appointed by the Government to
guard the roads of Bashakard and is paid a salary of Rials 60.000 (£750)
per annum.
Conscription .—972 conscripts were discharged and 2,580 were enlisted
during the period 15th Mehr to 30th Azar (7th October to 21st December).
Mines .—Iranian Mining Engineers and Inspectors from Tehran paid
frequent visits to the Red Oxide mines at Hormuz Island during the year.
The Customs Department has been working the Red Oxide mines.
During the month of October Sulaiman Zadeh, a Mining Engineer, arrived
from Tehran and started work in the salt mines on the Island. He also
started the construction of a road from the salt mines to the beach in front
of the Customs House for the transportation of salt. Plans have been
submitted to Tehran for the erection of a Government building and store
room on the Island.
Two geologists undbr Mr. Abdaaleyan arrived from Tehran to proceed
to Jask from where they would go to Lingah and Bustanah to survey the
mines.
Messrs. Martin Brothers of Tehran were granted the sole monopoly
of sales of Hormuz Red Oxide in India and the East and shipped 3,000 tons
of red oxide to Calcutta during the month of June.
Mirza Abdul Mohommad Danishwar of the firm of Irano-Japan
Trading Company, Tehran, who is reported to have been granted the mono
poly right of the Salt mines of Namakdan (Kishm Island), in partnersnip
with the Banque Falahati (Agricultural Bank), arrived during November,
and was accompanied by a Russian Engineer and a mechanic. Work has
commenced at Namakdan and it is said that 6,000 tons of salt are ready for
export. . . ,
Mr. Eichi Machi, representative of the firm of Mitsui Bussan Kaisha
Limited Tehran, arrived from Tehran during the month of November.
After visiting the salt mines of Hormuz and Namakdan he proceeded to
Japan. It is believed that this Company intend competing with Irano-
Japan Trading Company for the purchase of salt from the ^herkate
13,837 tons of Red Oxide were shipped to foreign countries during the
y Shivvina and Navigation—US steamers of all nationalities aggregat
ing 330,308 tons entered and cleared the ^vesSls wTh
131 vessels with n f‘ 0 ^oSn ^ ves^s wTth a total tonnage of 13 500
were^ Japanese, and 2 vessels with a total tonnage of ^ t ° e( ^ er s ^ 1 r ee and
Iranian Government during the year.
c H . LINCOLN, Major,
British Consulate Kerma , Ma j e sty’s Consul.
Dated at Bandar Abbas, Mh February 1937. Hs , V
46(C) ExAfiairsDept
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:511v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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