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Diary of His Majesty’s Consulate, Kerman, No. 3, for the month of March 1933.
29. Personal. —Reference paragraph 179
of 1932.
Captain C. H. Lincoln, His
Majesty’s Consul, Kerman, returned from
Bandar Abbas on the 19th.
30. Local Affairs. —Amir Ibrahimi and
Dabistani, two of the six deputies for the
Kerman Province, who had been on leave
in Kerman, received telegraphic summons
to Tehran at the beginning of the month
to be present at the inauguration of the
9th session of the Medjliss.
31. Reference paragraph 21.
The Governor-General was successful
in inducing such share-holders of the ex
spinning mill concern as belonged to the
Kerman district to agree to the formation
of a company, with a capital of 100,000
Tumans, to import a wool carding machine
with a view to promoting the cloth-weaving
industry of Kerman. The ultimate object
is also, if funds could be raised, to import
‘a cotton spinning mill. The Rafsinjan
share-holders who were more interested
in the cotton industry and the export of
this commodity and their pistachio crops
to foreign countries withdrew to the
utmost disgust of His Excellency the^
Governor-General, who has now asked the
Kerman share-holders to subscribe further
money to bring the capital up to 100,000
Tumans. On the Nauruz reception His
Excellency conveyed to them the Shah’s
approval of the new project.
32. Reference paragraphs 3 and 16.
The work on the circus and other Khaya-
bans in the town has greatly slackened
down owing to want of funds. The
Governor-General has also received ins
tructions from Tehran not to interfere
any further with the cemeteries in the
town. This apparently is the result of
complaints by the relations of those who
died and were buried within the last twelve
months, and whose corpses had to be
exhumed and removed by them to the new
cemetery outside the town to avoid their
graves being obliterated. In a few cases $
the dead bodies thus removed even showed
signs of being in a fresh state.
33. The Governor-General celebrated
the Anniversary of the Shah’s birthday
on the 15th. Invitations w r ere, however,
sent out by the Municipality Department
and separate times fixed for different
sections. As was done at the time of the
Shah’s visit to Kerman in 1930, the
Mullahs were invited first, then came the
foreign representations, after which came
everybody else, foreigners and Persians
together. The Indian Attache' of the
Consulate was invited in the absence of His
Majesty’s Consul. The Consulate flagstaff
was dressed on this occasion, as well as
on the Nauruz day on which occasion
general invitations were issued to His
Majesty’s Consul and other foreigners in the
station.
34. In view of the accumulation of work
in the Bidayat (1st instance) Court in
Kerman, orders have been received by
the Adlieh Department to establish an
additional court, to deal with criminal
cases only. One of the reserve judges of
the Appeal Court has been put in charge
of the new court.
35. Two Kerman merchants, Amin-
zadeh and Qazvini, left for Tehran at the
latter part of the month to take part in the
Economics Conference to be held at Teh
ran in the first week of April.
36. Military Department .—Sarhang
Mohamed Khan, Maimand, the Oflicer
Commanding of the Kerman Teep, was
promoted to the rank of Sartip (Brigadier
General) at the end of the month.
37. Communications .—Reference para
graphs 2 and 10.
The Road Department in Kerman has
received orders from Tehran not to disburse
salaries for the month ending 20th March
as the year’s budget had already been
exceeded.
38. Security .—Four armed Farsi robbers,
including one Siah Khan, a well-known
outlaw, were captured by the Amnieh
authorities near Hajiabad on the Kerman-
Bandar Abbas motor road and brought in
to Sirjan during the latter part of the
month. One of the four, however, succeeded
in escaping and Siah Khan with two others
has been brought to Kerman and handed
over to the military authorities.
39. Miscellaneous. —A party of 12
footballers arrived from Tehran on the
24th to compete with the Kerman team.