'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the year 1932' [‎531v] (38/73)

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The lighting arrangements have greatly improved owing to the electric plant
imported in 1931 by Sheikh Abul Kassim Harandi, the Russian Sales Agent
now functioning. The Municipality at one time endeavoured to go in partner
ship in this concern but failed. It is generally believed that the concern is
actually a Russian one.
From the month of May to the close of the year the Grovernor-General acted
as the Chief of the Municipality but in December a cdrtain Waziri, who had
held the post twice before, was re-appointed. Locally made water-carts have
been introduced.
Agriculture. —M. Makarian, the representative of the Department of Agri
culture in the Kerman Province, received orders in September to close down
his office and return to Tehran. No useful work has so far been accomplished
in this province by the Agricultural authorities.
An Armenian representative of the Ministry of Economics paid a visit to
Rafsinjan in April to examine the Pistachio post : nothing further has been
heard on the subject.
Heavy rains of a tropical nature fell in the whole province of Kerman on
the 16,17th July causing heavy floods all round. A number of houses were
damaged and some lives lost. Great damage was caused to qanats ("water
channels). . The Governor-General’s estimate of the total damage to the pro-
ymce was in the vicinity of 10 million Tumans. 524 qanats suffered out of a
total of o,000 m the province. The land-owners have not vet been able to repair
the larger number of these owing to want of ready cash. The land-produce will
thus not reach the normal level for a number of vears to come. Owing to a good
deal ol harvest having been washed away by the floods, scarcity of dom was
already being felt in Kerman at the end of the year.
Locusts. Two swarms of locusts appeared in the districts of Jiruft and
Eudbar m January, but they caused no damage. In fact the insects were u"od
as food by the poorer inhabitants—a not unusual practice in the above districts
Ihe piovince was thus free from the locust pest throughout the year.
Sejjil-i-Ahwaal. Mirza Mohammad Ali Khan, Dabir Ilahi, was the chief of
the Census Department at the close of the rear. No cases of cornmilL ' !i •
Department were reported during the year, and there have been few b, t thlS
ot default on the part of the public to obtain their Sejjil-i-Ahwaal iiapei's. "" ' ^
ell w Ca l'f" K<, ° S T r ^ ri '! g the year fhe takin S ove r by the Government of
the \ aqt property (endowments) in the country was advocated hv lne -,1
GoTCmo^GmferM^lsoTried'd'mectlv'or'IndirectlvTo'iiiflue^nce tlie^T'^fMti' Ju 6
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Kerman town and environs
Rafsinjan
Jiruft and Rudbar
Bam
Muayyid-i-Alimadi.
Dabistani.
Amir-i-Ibrahimi.
Roohi.
Dr. Malikzadeh.
-hr, tt *• J-'i-iviaiiKzaaeh.
Mirza Hassan Khan, Mirat Tofonrli’o».,’ ^ i -r^
for Sirjan. ’ islandian, replaced Dr. Sheikh (Ihya-ul-Mul
As fhe public were well aware ii,„f n... n
returned under any circumstances no realwl' 0V * ernm ? 1 t "^'"ees were to
except by the parties concerned. ’ A renresentaHo"'! 8 *'♦ C6n the P roeee <i i!
m Kernian to Tehran asking for permiSn to fl A ' by , the tradill « commun
their community met with no response. * * 0ne de P at y for the town fr.
the IfidlX'bas'wMed stili' further. 01 * 1 ° f ^ poIitical ev ®t. The influence