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CHAPTER V.
Administeatiox Report of His Majesty's Consulate, Kerman, for the year
A.— British Interests.
^ ^'W ls Majesty’s Consulate — personnel. —Mr. G A Rich a rd<?nn o H t? i
tho officiatmg charge of the Consulate (in addition'to'toldin^the’a^ooStr m't
of is Majesty 's Consul, Bandar Abbas) till the forenoon of the 9th December
when he was relieved by Captain C. H. Lincoln, O.B.E., from Mohammerah
Khan Bahadur Abdul Alim, L.K., held the post of Indian Attache to Hk
Majesty’s Consul, throughout the year. ^-wacne to Mis
C I° nsulate W*) r k.~{a) 34 British subjects were registered at the Consulate
during the year, the number registered during 1931 being 54.
. J*l The of e T 0 »a.g e °n the Consulate on behalf of the Police
authorities C0Iltln l ,e d throughout the year. A certain Mirza Darwish a Persian
subject, who was formerly a Munshi in the British Vice-Consulate, Bam but since
its closing down m 1906, kept on supplying local news to the Consulate was
arrested m Bam by the Police authorities on the 26th January and sent to Kerman
where he died on the 9th March in the Police lock-up. ^ tvciman
i n Th f J 11] ^ ver ‘ s f r y °f H. I. M. the Shah’s Birthday and the Nauruz were
celebrated by the acting Governor-General on the 15th and 21st March
respectively. On both the occasions the acting Governor-General abstained from
sending any official intimation or invitation to the Consulate as had alwavs been
vRits 0re ' ^ MajeSty S officlatln S Consul, however, paid complimentary
- ^ Hindu trader, Pamanmal, was sent up to Kerman from Bandar Abbas
n May to stand his trial for attempting to smuggle, in April 1931, 413 miscals
o gold out of Persia. The Court of the First Instance sentenced him to three
months imprisonment and to a fine of double the value of the gold. Pamanmal
v ho was absolutely destitute filed an appeal which was heard on the 28th Julv
He received unofficial support of the Consulate. At the hearing by the Appeal
Court he denied having admitted at the lower court that the e-old was hffiW
stated that it actually belonged to another Hindu, Waparimal at Bandar A hbns
The Appeal Court forwarded the dossier to the latter%la^for further enqufrv
and nothing further has been heard of the case. In the meantime Pamanma'l
appears to have, returned to India, his surety at Bandar Abbas (a third Hindu)
has died and Wapanmal has also proceeded to India.
the y? a :Vth r : kcMCou C rts minal ^" C0UCerning British 8nb ^ ts during
3. Imperial Bank of Persia and Trade in General. —Mr. W Y (low con
tinned as Manager of the Kerman Branch till the end of October when he was
mI’Vp ° T n , ( t rai 1 , , sfer Mohammerah, by Mr. V. H. Glendening from Kesht
Mi. J. F. Luttrell was Accountant throughout the year.
There is very little to say about business during the period under review
except to repeat, what is unfortunately becoming an only too monotonmil
remark “• Nothing doing ”. High customs and the new trlde regulations have
not improved matters m any way and the fact that business in general has falffin
off considerably is confirmed by the shortness of ready cash in^ the bazaars
duri^thT^afwe'rT:^ ^ rateS f ° r “ Free " change
Fliymg ‘ • * * •’ • • Rials. 756 per Rs. 100.
Se lng * ‘ ‘ v ' • * • Rials. 762 per Rs. 100.
^ These rates may, however, be taken as practically nominal as verv little
report; 88 WaS cFme in R u P ees ^7 ii 10 local Banks during the period under
4. CJmrch Missionary Society.-(a) General.-Durinx the year the Rev.
o' vr continued to discharge the duties of Chaplain and Mr F T B
^ A ' W T as m cliarge °. f the C - M - S. Boys’ School. Miss J. F.
woodroffe remained m charge of the Girls’ School throughout.
Dr. G. E. Dodson was the head of the Medical Mission, assisted by Dr. (Miss)
Piggot as Medical Officer of the Female Hospital. Miss Stratton,'who was in