Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [‎233v] (471/1028)

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A representative of the Syndicate from Tehran, said to he a Polish S I
Agriculture. jeet visited Kerman in February to study
. . question of improving the methods Wore
paring dried inut tor export. F
Unusual frosts in the early spring caused considerable damage to the f 'f
blossom. ruit
There was decrease in the amonut of wheat and barley harvest in tl
vicinity of Kerman town, during the year, due to damage done to the nnd &
ground water channels by the floods of the previous summer, which has^VT
estimated at 500,000 Mans. It will be some time before all these channels ^
be restored to their former condition.
Locusts.-
the year.
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-No locust invasion of the province was brought to notice dm
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Mirza Mohamad Ali Khan Dabir Ilahi, the Chief Census Officer for Area
Sejill-i-Ahwal. ^ 6, including Kerman and Persian Baluchis-
T . . ,, , tan dlecI m June and Mirza Abdullah Khau
Xsfandian a Census Officer on leave from Tehran, was placed in charge until
the. end ol August, when, having been summoned to Tehran, he handed over
acting charge to Samzadeh, the next senior official. Murtiza Mirza Oahramani
was eventually appointed Chief Census Officer for this area in October and
remained in charge for the rest of the year.
tSartip Farajullah Khan, Director-General of the Census Administration in
1 ersia, arrived trom Tehran, on a tour of inspection, at the end of November
and returned to Tehran in the middle of December.
Qahramani visited Iranshahr and Khwash at the end of the year to estab-
lish a (Lensus Office for Persian Baluchistan.
In spite of many warnings issued to the inhabitants of Kerman, there are
still a large number of people who have not yet applied for a paper of Identifica-
ti01L J n ^'ordance with a circular received from Tehran at the end of the
\ear, the Census authorities have started sending men round to each house and
calling upon each person to produce his or her Identity paper.
10. Local Politics.—The fall of Timourtash and the arrest of the War
i mister, at the end of the year, apart from giving rise to many wild and con-
n inmours, have created a subdued feeling of resentment and suspicion
^ams ic present icgime, especially among the disaffected, whose number is
decidedly on the increase.
. r ^j 1 . 0 pe^er of the Mullahs continues to be on the wane, though there were
in na ions at the latter part of the year of the local authorities being more in
clined to humour this class.
Th , e M uhurrum ceremonies in the early part of May passed off quietly and
i <m T Fi Un ^? W f^ even ^ The ^ processions were if anything further
1 ai - ( j 1 c an ^ ^he slashing of heads, which was not attempted even in out of the
waj villages m the province, is already a thing of the past.
Bailing a few anti-British articles, for the most part copied from Tehran
Press. papers, in connection with the Anglo-Persian
nothin o’ it + -p. ... . 9^ Company affair and the Basidu incident,
y ear } a e ^ ri Bsh interests appeared in the local press during the
reo-ubir !^?Pl/r!nr^ W0 +i 0Ca ^ wee ^^ v papers, which have maintained a more or less
some" timn 1 f )n ’t L01 ° TTf 6 9 V0 °^ iers which had stopped publication for
obtain bv nriinilr * r ant . ]cl P ation a handsome income which they hoped to
province fWr f 11 " no ^ 1CGS ^ connection with the registration of property.in the
Office A poMt <>0 f V^Pea^d a ^ a ^ n ’ on B 16 establishment of the Registration
with the !l 0W f 1]c l d alread y P een made in Tehran in the meantime
in the latter pa rrer T 1 Sltarel J-y e ; Je han •’ for the publication of these notices
been agreed fn o-’ ’ n S ^ re P r esentations made to Tehran, it has since
local papers G * 16 budc ^ ie renia ining work to the two more permanent
charge the^HenltlB 7 c//(7rc. Dr. Suhrab Barkurdar, remained m
ge ot the Health Department in Kerman •throughout the year.
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