'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the year 1932' [‎546r] (67/73)

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On the -nth May Major Holmes submitted a fresh draft concession to the
Shaikh and sent a copy to the Honourable the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. .
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Manage! of to Angh)-I ersian Oil Company, the Shaikh was informed that the
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concessions by His Majesty’s Government’s experts.
At the end of December His Majesty’s Government sent out, to the Shaikh
a lengthy letter consisting of a comparison between the draft Oil concessions
submitted by the Eastern and General Syndicate and the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company, limited, together with the considered comments and observations of
His Majesty’s Government, as far as the financial advantages offered by each
Company were concerned. These observations of His Majesty’s Government
were duly passed on to the Shaikh on 8th January 1933, and here for the moment
the matter stands.
XI. — Posts and Telegraphs.
The Post and Telegraph service in Kuwait continued to he run by the Iraq
Government during 1932. This arrangement is no longer satisfactory or
desirable now that Iraq has become independent.
As a result of protracted negotiations carried out during 1932, His
Majesty’s Government, at the end of the year, decided to inform the' Iraq
Government that His Excellency the Shaikh of Kuwait was prepared to enter
into an agreement with Iraq for the Iraq Post and Telegraphs Department to
administer the Post and Telegraph Department of Kuwait under certain con
ditions.
These above were conveyed to the Iraq Government on 12th January 1933,
but to date no reply has been received.
XII. — Political Agent’s Toubs.
During the year under review the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. again wumt all over the
State by car and visited practically every important point on the Kuwait-
Sa’udiyah frontier. In addition one comprehensive tour was made of the
Kuwait Neutral Zone.
The object of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in making these tours was to show him
self to the tribes and to familiarize himself with hinterland affairs, the state
of wells, grazing areas, and movements of the various Bedouin sections.
The keeping up of such ‘ tours ’ is in the opinion of the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. an important
duty of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. ; as above all they breed confidence among the
Nomadic population and show trans-border officials and persons bent on mischief
that the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. is ‘ wide awake ’ ; and is working in close co-operation
with the Euler of Kuwait and his people.
XIII.— Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Charitable Dispensary.
(a) Work done during the year 133,2.—There were a total of 10,015 atten
dances made up as follows :—
Adults
Children
74 minor operations were
(5) Prevailing Diseases.
Eye diseases
Ear diseases
males 3,221
) females 2735
C males 2,295
\ females 1,764
carried out.
2,635
2,140