مجموعة ٥/٣٠(١) "يوميّات الخليج الفارسي: المقيمية البريطانية في بوشهر (الفارسية) يناير ١٩٤١" [و‎‎١‎٠‎٢] (٩٣٨/٢٠٤)

BUSHIRE INTELLIGENCE dUMUARY NO. IS FOR TIE PERIOD FROM
1ST TO 15TH OCTOBER , 1944.
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(a) British Officials. 1044 __j
(i) The Hon'ble the Political Resident in the Persian
Gulf returned from Shiraz on October 10th.
(il) Captain W # G. Raw, His Majesty's Vice Consul,
Bushire, proceeded to Shiraz on October 5th and returned to
Bushire on October 14th, 1944.
(Hi) Captain E.R. Budden, Adviser to the Cereals
and Bread Department, Pars, arrived from Shiraz on October 2nd
and left for Shiraz on October 8th, 1S44.
(iv) Colonel Yfood, R.E, with a party of two British
Officers and two B.O.R.s arrived at Bushire from Shiraz on
October 12th and returned to Shiraz on October 14th, 1944.
(v) Mr. R.M. Hadow, Political Officer, Trucial Coast
arrived from Shiraz on October 6th and left for Bahrain by air
on October 15th, 1944.
(b> A Ui sd ,.pmslaIs.
(1) Paragraph I (b) of Summary No. 18.
Colonel Barker left for Lingeh on October 3rd,1944.
See paragraph 3 (b) of this Summary.
(c) Persian Officials, .
(1) Aqai Sanizadeh of the Agricultural Department
arrived from Shiraz on tour on October 2nd and left on October 8th,
1944.
(ii) Aqai Qadimi, Acting Director of Customs,Bushire,
proceeded to Tehran on transfer and was relieved by Aqai Shujai,
who arrived on October 3rd.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
(a) As the result of the virtual standstill to which business
has come in the local and up-country markets, sales of the products
of the Etemadiyeh Mill. Bushire, have decreased to vanishing point
and the Mill is now said to hold accumulations of stock amounting to
80Q90Q metres. The number of shifts in the Mill has in consequence
been decreased and 250 hands have been thrown out of work. There is
a prospect of further substantial reductions being made in the near
future in the sc P le of labour employed.
(b) The precipitate decline in the black market price of
sugar led to the refusal of Kadkhudas and other recognised agents to
accept the Government sugar ration for the.month of ohahrivar. The
price of Government sugar per b p g is only Rials 2000, but since an
approximately similar amount per bag has to go to meet the demands of
the usual array of petty intermediate officials, no margin of
potential profit from the subsequent sale in the black market of the
Government sugar would have been left, the black market price per bag
at the time having dropped to Rials 4000, with a few quotations at an
even lower figure. With a later increase in the black market figure,
however, the agents intimated that they would be willing ta accept
the Government ration.