مجموعة ٣٠/ ٣٦ "البحرين: ادعاء يوسف لطفعلي خنجي، وهو أحد الرعايا الفارسيين، ضد الشيخ حمد فيما يخص مصنع للثلج" [و‎‎٤‎٤] (٣٤٠/٨٧)

Copy of a memorandum No*585 8-F* of 1349 dated the 3?th
R/Thany, 1349(20th September 1930) from the Adviser to the
Government, Bahrain, to H.B«M T s Political Agent, Bahrain.
Ice Factory.
Owing to a letter which has oeen received irom Mr.Yusuf
Khonji, of Manchester, a Persian merchant with interests in
Bahrain who owns one naif snare in tne ice factory oi which tne
other half snare was owned oy H*E« Shaiioi Hamad and sold by him
to the Manama Municipality, it appears that this person
proposes filing a case against H*E. Shaiioi Hamad. -I therefore
wish to acquaint you with the particulars of the negociations
leading up to the sale.
About ten years ago Yusuf Khonji obtained the sanction
of the Hon T ble trie Politics! Resident in tne Gulf to import an
ice plant into Banrain, in partnership with H*E. Shaixh Hamad,
both parties owning an equal snare. H*E* ShaiKh Hamad informs
me that he paid between iis.30,000/- and Rs.40,000/- for nis naif
share-
'tfStet. Yusuf Khonji presumably paid a similar sum.
H.E. Shaikh Hamad informs me that no deed of partnership
was ever drawn up or signed but ail arrangements were verbal.
The arrangement appears to nave been tnat each party should xxxi
share equally in profits or losses, eacn owning a naif interest
in tne concern.
The machinery, consisting of two Rustom Hornsby engines
and two complete ice aaking outfits, was put in a stone building
on the edge of a garden owned by Yusuf Khonji some distance
outside Manama town* The site ox tne factory was included in
tne partnership, also tne buildings out not tne garden. Water
was obtained from a very dirty well also m tne garden, the
water was very bracjcisn.
In 1921, Mr. Khonji was granted a five years sole
monopoly to make ice. It expired in 1926 and was not renewed.
For tne first two or tnree Jears H.E« Shaikh Hamad