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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [150v] (305/1028)
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 Ruler continues, with excellent results, to forbid a newspanp
cinemas, theatres, alchoholic drink and gramophones in coffee shops Th*
heady wine of Western “civilization” is thus being taken in ships not
gulps, and only by the wealthier class, which is able to resort to Basra
(c) Imperial Airways. —The East and Westbound services of Imperial
Airways were duplicated as from 1 st January 1935, and during the period
under review, continued to call at Kuwait if somewhat irregularly.
The percentage of calls not made to total passages was approximately
70 per cent. *- ■
There is no night landing equipment, no hanger or shelter other than
the Town wall, no Airways provided wind-indicator, and no waiting room
for passengers, beyond a sun shelter built by His Excellency the Shaikh
nor is there a buoyed seaplane anchorage.
No rapid means of communication exists in Kuwait for the disposal of
meteorological reports and communication with aircraft.
The landing ground continues to be the small area under the Town
wall and the wider area available a little further out has not been used.
The only visit received from an Airways Staff official dfiring the year
was from Mr. Cross, the Cairo Manager who spent a quarter of an hour
on the aerodrome at Kuwait on the 11 th of November.
(d) Boat Building and Pearl Diving. —A note on the number, tonnage
etc., of boats built during the year will be found in the Trade Report lor
1935.
The industry remained very low owing to the slump in the pearl market
and resultant decrease in pearl diving.
Boats are now cheaper than they have been for many years and the
best builders in the town will make a
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
or smaller sailing boat for a
third of price charged a few years ago.
The pearling vessels this year put into commission numbered about
250 as compared with 300 in 1934. and about 750 in the hey day of pearling
in the years just after the Great War of 1914-18.
(e) Locusts. —No plague of locusts came to Kuwait in 1935.
(/) The Pilgrimage to Mecca (Haj). —The 1935 pilgrimage led about
1160 Moslems to leave Kuwait by the overland route. Of these about 160
were foreigners passing through the State.
The figures are as follows:—
Overland route.
Car. Camel
Kuwaitis
Indians .
Iraqis
Persians .
Miscellaneous .
Sea or other route. ^
Kuwaitis . Nil.
16 1,000
14
130
a considerably greater number of pilgrims thus left Kuwait for the pilgrim
age than in 1934.
V. H. M. the Late King Emperor’s Birthday and Jubilee.
His Majesty the late King Emperor’s Birthday was approximately
celebrated on June 3rd. May the 6 th was celebrated as a general Holiday,
for the Jubilee, His Excellency the Shaikh holding horse races, war games,
dancing and fantasias. He also distributed alms to the poor and gave a
dinner to three hundred of the oldest people of the town.
The
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
gave an official reception and dinner party and
the exceptional occasion was otherwise suitably marked.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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