'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the year 1932' [‎531r] (37/73)

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Director of Finance by orders from Tehran. Mr. Meyer, whose contract was
to expire in a month’s time, submitted his resignation but nothing has so far
come out of it.
Owing to greater facilities afforded to local traders, the National Bank
have been 5 fairly jn'csperous in their business as compared with the Imperial
Bank of Persia.
No new branches were opened by the National Bank during the year.
Their Hafsiujan branch continued to remain in charge of a Persian Manager.
Herr Meyer took great interest at the beginning of the year in the Spinning
Mm project; but when M. Rudolf Ortel, representing^ the German firm of
Simens Halsker failed in his attempts to induce the Kerman share-holders to
import the machinery from Germany, Mr. Meyer’s enthusiasm disappeared
simultaneously.
Police .—Yawar Seyyid Sadiq. Khan, Sheikh-ul-Islami, continued to remain
in charge of the Police Department in Kerman throughout the yeai. I he post
of Rais-i-Police (head of the Police office) was abolished in May. There was
no instances of undue interference by the Police authorities with the Biitisli
subjects, throughout the year.
Justice .—Mirza Reza Khan, Tajaddud, remained as Chief of the Appeal
Court throughout the year. There are at present, besides the Appeal Court,
two lower courts in Kerman, called Bidayat and Sulhieh. A good deal of delay
is caused in the conduct of cases, particularly in the two last courts. British
traders, not very many at the present time, have as a rule adopted the course
of settling their claims privately instead of going to the Courts.
Orders were received in July for the amalgamation of the Kerman and
Khuzistan Appeal Courts, functioning for 8 months of the year at the former
place and the remaining four months at Ahwaz. The Appeal Court, therefore,
proceeded to its winter headquarters in December.
The jurisdiction of the Adlieh Court at Bandar Abbas was, in the month
of October, extended to Sirjan in the Kerman province, where it will in future
move tor the summer months.
Posts and 7 e/cr/mp^s.—Mirza Ahmed Khan, Waziri, was the Director of
Posts and Telegraphs at the beginning of the year, but he was replaced by
Prince Afsar in June. Mirza Fazlullah Khan, Director of Telegraph Lines in
the South visited Kerman early in the year to repair the wires m the Nusret-
abad-Sipi and Zahidan section.
The Telegraph Administration has worked satisfactorily on the whole,
though urgent messages are not accepted for transmission at night. Telegrams
received after sun-down are also sent out for delivery the following morning.
Education.- -There has been no substantial increase in the Budget grant for
Educational purposes in the province, though a promise had been given at t le
beginning of the vear. It later transpired that the increase sanctioned tor
Kerman was transferred by orders from the Shah to a northern province. The
number of schools has not materially increased, but, owing to the endeavours
of Mirza Hassan Khan Jaudat, the Chief of this Department, the number of
pupils in the year increased by 300.
Dyeing and drawing is now being taught in the technical school in Kerman.
The Parsi School had to close down its Middle classes due to the fact that
the proceeds of the endowed estates dedicated for this school, decreased m
consequence of the damage caused to landed properties by the July floods. Hie
Parsis in Bombay also give considerable support to this school.
Ammeh.-^Sida Sarhang Abdullah Khan, Tumaj, remained in charge of
the Amnieh Department throughout the year. Tire satisfactory work done by
this Department has been commented upon elsewhere, lire discipline of die
force which is about 1,000 strong has, on the whole improved.
No new Municipal taxes were introduced during the year and the house tax
of 3 per cent, on the calculated annual rent, which was to be introduced m
March 1931, has not yet been collected.
MunicwaliUl .—The Municipal authorities seem to be occupied mainly with
the cutting of new avenues throughout the town, and a numb or of these nave
alreadv been cut causing demolition of new houses during the vea . x
endeavours are, however, made to pay compensation, even to the poorer classes.