مجموعة ٩/٣٠ "الخليج الفارسي: تقارير إدارية ١٩٢٦-١٩٣٨" [و‎‎٢‎٣‎٢] (١٠٢٨/٤٦٨)

Amir Khan Suhrabian (a Persian Armenian) held the post of Provincial
Director of Finance througnout the year and being a capable alid^ tactful
Finance and Revenue.
oincial* the administration of the Finance
Department in this province has improved all
round since his appointment. An official of this department was put under arrest
early in the year on a charge of misappropriating money while holding the post
of f inancial Assistant at Bam and Baft. ^
OpiwYL —The outturn for the opium harvest was slightly smaller than the
previous year, amounting to just over 2,000 Tabriz Mans. The amount at
taxed opium issued to shop-keepers by the Monopoly Department for local con
sumption in the province, during the year, amounted to about 3,o00 Mans, t ic
shortage being made up by supplies from other provinces.
The income of the Monopolv Department on taxes was, therefore, about me
million Kials, which is probably a record so far as Kerman is concerned.
Searching of houses of all classes of the inhabitants on the least suspicion
was more frequent than before, although the actual quantity of contraband
opium confiscated was practically negligible.
The total fines awarded for smuggling during the year amounted to between
7 and 8 thousand tumans, hut only a small proportion of this ys actuady
realised, as most of the parties concerned served the required teims ot
prisonment in lieu of fines.
As the result of enquiries made by a special inspector who arrived from
TVhrm in -Wust the person in charge of the Monopoly godown was put under
a“ In tcmnection witli a shortage in the stocks of opium amounting to nearly
Eials. 40,000.
There was little or no smuggling from the other provinces and no exports
during the year. . ./
There are no indications as to any decrease in the number of opium addicts^
Herr V Meyer remained in charge of the National Bank of Persia until
the end of September, when, his g^timi having ^ headed
National Bank of Persia. naturalised Persian Subject, said to be of
Arab or Syrian origin. _ . , ,
M Bahoshi appears to be a marked improvement on his predecessor in dea -
w wiiirfh! Persians and in the conduction of business in general, and, m spite
J"’,i p a 4 i,nt thp forms offered by the IniDerial Bank of Persia were on the
whole more favourable than those of the National Bank, the latter are said to
have handled a greater proportion of the hamong business dm mg the y ‘ •
th e e
close of the 5^ Sheikh-ul-Islami held the charge of the Police
lawar b of July, when he was relieved by Yawar Sayyed
Department until the d Yusuf Khan Khatimi, who held the post of
police. Commissioner for the rest of tbe year.
Tim nrestme of the Police force in Kerman, which had improved under
Sayyed Sadiq Khan, appears to have suffered since the arrival of the new clue ,
who is said to be not nearly as efficient as Ins predecess > .
The dealings of the Police authorities with the Consulate have been stiff an
foimal. . t i -i i t 4i ie -n 0 st of Chief Judge of the Appeal Court
Mirza Riza Khan Tajaddud ^ ^ the Appeal Coiir t s
Kerman throughout the >ear. for K erm an and Khuzistan had been amalga-
, T ustice. mat^d during the previous year and that the
1 P rt
m • 4 p^fondiuo’ the iurisdiction of tbe Bandar Abbas A.dlieh Couit
t0 Xh u^^mideration in the latter part of 1932, did not
Lc!29FD