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Bandar Abbas m tlie beginning of March, but certain parts of the engine having
been damaged on the road, the Russian Engineer, who had been sent by the
A. E. G. in Tehran (with whom the contract had been made) to supervise the
erection of the plant, was unable to proceed with his work, and the A. E. (p
were asked to send an electrician to see to the damaged parts. The electrician
arrived in the middle of May and the damage, which proved to be of a trivial
nature, was rectified, the work of erection completed and the machine started
functioning in the latter part of June. (Only the engine is of German manu
facture, all the other machinery having been supplied by G. Josephy's Erben
Bilsko, Silesia, Poland). On account of the slump in the carpet industry'
however, the plant has proved to be of little advantage to the Company.
7. Communications and Security. — {a) Communications .—In the beginning
of February, Azarnoush, who had been in charge of the Roads Department in
the Kerman Area for over a year, was succeeded by Nusratullnh Mirza Daulat-
dad, who remained in charge of the department until the latter part of Aimust
when he proceeded to Tehran, and Abul Fatih Khan Muzaffari, the Chief
Accountant of the Kerman office, held acting charge for the rest of the vear.
A new allotment of Rials 500,000 (about £6,000) was sanctioned bv the
Central Government at the end of March for resumption of work on the Kerman-
Shahdad motor alignment via the Sirch pass.
The Governor-General had shortly before this submitted a proposal to
Tehran, recommending the abandonment of this alignment in favour of one
from Kerman to Meshed via Rawar, with which Shahdad could be connected
by a branch mute. This proposal having been rejected by Tehran, the Kerman-
Shahdad road, work on which had been stopped since October 1932, was once
more taken in hand towards the end of May. The chief reason for decidiim to
go on with this road was said to be the large sums of money already spent
thereon— i.e., about Rials 1,300,000 (about £15,000), including the amount
subscribed by the land-owners. However, the work was again stopped at the
end of July, as the result of fresh orders from Tehran.
In the month of June land-owners and merchants from Rawar formed a
company, m conjunction with certain motor transport owners, for the makino-
ol a motor road trom Kerman to Meshed by the old caravan route via Rawar
the levelling oi this alignment was therefore taken in hand and completed as
* ai ^rdaus (lun) at the end of October, when the road was reported io be
V lio! ? brifu- tou ™y, cars - t With the exception, however, of a few journeys
,, A tf ’ load has not been used for motor traffic, except as far as
passable if 1 JnffTf ,1:RaWar sectlon > h wiU be remembered, was already
passaoie oy lignt touring cars.
betmWr eJd hlnhTf ?n pr 3 ,er metalhl i? the same, His Excellency 1
more detailed report. ^ Kerman - Fl rdau 8 section personally and sen,
end S March. ^ “
Bandar Abbas motor road andThe work of ■ f, h Sectl °. ° f , the Kerm
ever since. It should be remembered that the t'"" tlle pass has been going
a mile in length is ike oidJtwiffi u the T ? n g’ "' hl eh is little more tl
for many days too-ether thr TS 011 this road, and often gets bloel
that a fair number”,! vehicle^have me^ with^ccM^t* n ?i fr ° m rains, c
with loss of life. ' e n " 1 " “h accidents there, sometimes atten.
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cases of pettyrohberies s^urUvunfs With the exception of a few isolated
out the province Owiiisr to Ai,. ,r all the trade routes throngli-
Kermau-Zahidan road remained unsafe" during thl l^Sth^^
up t0 the luilitar y authorities in July amfLiS in a ffw“ ty ’ gaVe himSelf
year
V) Poits.-Ko new post offices were opened in the province during the