Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [‎233r] (470/1028)

A T aib Sark nag AMulkli Khan Tumaj remained in command of the Amnio-k
. , Regiment [ u this province throughout the
Ammeh - the year.
Sarlmng Baqir Khan of the Central Amnieh Administration arrived from
'Tehran on inspection early in the year, and Amir Lashkar Zarghami, the Ixene-
ral Officer Commanding, visited Kerman in the month of May.
In view it is understood, of the Amnieh authorities’ inability to cope with
the various road robberies, which became rather too frequent in the early Bum
mer Naib Sarhang Tumaj received instructions from Tehran, in the month of
July, to take his orders from the Officer Commanding Kerman Brigade, and this
arrangement remained in force until the end of the year.
Several cases of irregularity on behalf of the Amnieh Officers and N T on-
Commissioned Officers stationed" in the various outposts in the province were
brought to notice during the year.
The main artery road cut through middle of the town from east to west
and called the Kheyaban-i-Shahpur was com-
Jumcipality. pleted during the year, with the exception of
^certain sections which wall still have to be levelled up and metalled.
A new road leading from the above to the main bazaar was taken in hand
by the er-Governor-Oeneral and finished during the year. A large circus at die
east end of the new main road was also begun early in the year but left unfinished
due to want of funds and the recall of the ^-Governor-General at the end of
August. Sections of the balustrade round this circus sank in at the latter part
of the year as the result of the ground being flooded for cultivation.
The old cemetery on the east side of the city, in which dead bodies were
bein°’ buried until quite recently, was plotted out by the e^-Governor-General,
witlTa view to providing land to the inhabitants whose houses had been demo
lished to make room for the construction of the new roads. As the result of
reoreseutations made to Tehran, however, the Governor-General received orders
In the month of March not to interfere with the cemeteries any longer. But
several plots had already been disposed of and houses built on the site.
A new cemetery, which was started by the ^-Governor-General some two or
three miles outside the city, to replace the old one, and on which a considerable
amount of the Municipality funds had been spent, was, tlierefoie, abandoned
without having been completed or used.
The yeariv allowance allotted to the Kerman Municipality from Tehian,
W construction work and general improvement of the city, was reduced at the
beeirming ^f^current Persian year (21st March) from Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 20,000 to
6 , 000 .
All available funds, including a sum of Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 18,000 subscribed from other
provinces and collected locally for distribution among those who had suffered
from the floods of the previous year, were used up on construction work, by he
eL^Governor-General, on whose recall to Tehran in the month of August the
Municipality was left with a large deficit.
To make matters worse, the pay of the various Health Departments was
struck off the o-eneral budget from the beginning of November, and the Kerman
Municipality 6 were to make their own arrangem^r the payment of the
Health services in their own area from that date onv a els.
wi.;....
area by electricity alone is costing over Rials 10,000
«ach monlb. ... . .
It is needless to say that very little construction work is being carried on
under the present circumstances.
The Municipal tax of °a nSal rent of 3 per cent. Houses let
m7o"Ai e fa™ W 8 per cent., while those valued below Rials. 4,000
will be exempt from tax.
The above tax, which is being collected Yadually for the last three years, is
expected to amount to over Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. . 50,000 m the >ear.