مجموعة ٩/٣٠(٢) "تقارير إدارية عن الخليج الفارسي - ١٩٤٥ -" [و‎‎٣‎٧‎٩] (١١٤٨/٧٥٧)

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selves on a acst suoeessrul e^periiaeiitr, business tfss Dris^,
deposits sere heavy, one non-Covemnent account alone nuioujiting
to Rupees thirteen lakhs, and merchants preferret payment in
cheques to payment ir; coin. This happy result was in lar^e part
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due to the energy and personality of tne r anager vho nearly paid
•$ dearly for his entiiusiasm 'tad overwork by contracting typhoid
insJSLiA>r 0 n fever during the summer and being i" 1 for three months.
& a prosit'
i 3-)00/- <mc.it . XV. 7TfTT03f .
There h-’Ve been more visitors this year than during the
whole of the last ten years and the majority of the visitors have
either stayed or lunched at the .gency which has on -.any occasionf
resembled a hotel.
\t times it has been necessary to call on the other
British residents to help in accommodating guests and, inspired
as they all are with a genuine desire to help those whose lot is
harder than our own, their response has always been most pr-ti-
fying inspite of the inconvenience of putting up strangers at
short notice and the expense involved with prices several hundred
the pre-mr rates and essentials^now become
ruxuries^ scarcely obtainable even at very high prices.
xvi.
Total rainfall during the year : 2.73’*
Maximum temperature: (in July) l :, d.5
,r ini.mja tempernt’ure: (in January) 3*3.
8th ? ebruary, 1943.
Vajor,
3d. T. Hickinbotham,
Political \gent, Kuwait.