Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [‎344v] (693/1028)

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Postal Facihties.-These have remained as in the previous year T) ^
K. L M aeroplane service made further trial flights throuuli ^ ^
hrench Air Union service to Indo-China was inaugurated in Uprvn tte
first plane passed through. Uccember, when the
Foreign Commerical Enterprise.—The Junkers service maintain v
record of the previous year and ran punctually and regularly A 1 S ^ xce ^ ent
plane was kept at Bushire during the latter part of tlUyea/and ,UT frelght
chartered to bring down loads of opium from Shiraz and tie up sugw freqileIltl ?
The Hansa line maintained their monthly sailings to the P„lf „v, • ,
Russian steamers visited the port during the year wH, „„ “ ' whlle ei gkt
There is talk of an American lii shorS^ngTAitly
to the United States, while the Japanese are also understood to he f d f Ct Sa / hngS
running ships to the Gulf. understood to be contemplating
Herr A assmuss, owing to financial troubles, was obliged to snsopnrl tic -f
act ivities at Chagadak and there seems no likelihood of their bpiriaun f a !' m ^
left for Tehran about the middle of the year. ° C011tlIlue( ^- He
A ational Bank.—An arrangement was come to early in the year h
of discount were jointly fixed by the Imperial Bank of PersL andTh/l^ i
Bank in order to put a stop to uneconomic cutting of rates which was nrnfiy f
the merchants. Business has been necessarily dull thronohrA rt P rofit ' n g only
Manager of the National Bank has been kept ex^emelytusv B kfnh’ “U 1
to the inadequacy and inefficiency of his staff rath or thn ^ 1 1S u'° att ributed
business done. The majority of Bushhe merchants „a^f,° Td V ° lume of
deal with the Imperial Bank of Persia and have not transferred their d^posTC^ t0
tant of P^sia V exports^shonUlia vf the /"° st ' ucrative and impor-
attentions in its search for sources of revenue -,,,0 0 ? ° f * 16 ® overnment ’ s special
previously announced, the tax was rated in Marchto^rm As had beel ‘
again in June to Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 400. On the otherhand stu^ S 3 l 0 „ p t r Case and
mately 15% from Rs. 2,300 to Rs. 2,000 per c-se while tlf 8 fellb T. a PP roxl -
slightly towards the close of the year In poin‘ of f , r tt purcj:ase P™ 6 increased
price and increase in tax would'seem to W b! f 1 ’ °, WeVer ’ b ° th tte fal1 in
fall in the real Kran rate. The cron rir ,,,.,„i 1 , -T'? largely counteracted by the
if lower than in 1929 when conditions Were esUctlly afvanta 7 ’ ^ eXP ° rt fig T’
less surprisingly hmh the tot^il hpino- ^ roi C ^ anta g e °us, were neverthe-
is observable that of those 2 823 werp 0 ;n 5 ’ 686 case | .„ as . coni P a red with 6,812. It
cases just missed inclusion in the 1930 fitreA * ° f lIhclt + shl P me nts (a further 802
for this increase beino- attXtTbi: ;, l 8 r l aS , against 2 ’ 338 in 1929 > *lie reason
higher, an advantaTSheater t tr pr ° fitS in the iUict tra <ie a re
accentuate. ° V16r taxatlon and reduced selling price has tended to
There seems little doubt that the Persion rv„,„ , , . .
making any effort to reduce thp o -pc i n ^ T ? vernmen f ; have no intention of
increased taxes it is rather L the TeU ° Pmm eultiva ti™- « they have
on account of any sincere desire to reduce thArop 161 ° f tIle pr0verbial g00se ’ than
ised in November inthe'formrf Ailn 0I | nim :n tbe hands of a syndicate material-
terms of the agreement were^to ^ay'the^least 1 ^ t0 aap Al pr n .'. u t'd'ujjar. The
undertake to export or at least f n . least, surprising. Haji Amin was to
concession was to be five years flF “ &X °f ca ses yearly. The period of the
two years, £100 in ^fsecCd^ t0 ^ ¥ P6r ^ the ^
exchange proceeds of sale were to be sold to ^ Furt 1 h ^ rm0Te 40 % of the
himself to sell £150 000 to tliP Hovernment and Haji Amin pledged
It ^ ’ UU t0 the Government at 60 in the first year.
obvious from the first tfiaT fill to exploit the concession, hut it was fairly
consider the scheme mactfc.hU! f intere «ted in opium export did not
pate. At the end ofTe let a - ^ conditions imposed and refused to partich
and it seemed highly improbable tW a< ^ aS ^ et to induce anyone to join him
poly were much mfdffi would > nnless the terms of the mono-