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Milli to form a silver reservedl^d R to^pre^t^r^h” by the Bank ' i '
of the country and the increase of pape? money dlrTn^thf m?ddl the
year resulted m a scarcity of silver and small change S This caused great
hardship and inconvenience m this Province It ^ ^ { g i
were purchased secretly by well-to-do merchants at 10 per cent above "the
face value The situation improved towards the end of the year when
supplies of small copper coins were received from Tehran by the Bank-i-
Milli.
4 Church Missionary Society, (a) General.—tU Reverend H E J
Biggs handed over his duties as Chaplain to Reverend R. Iliff in November
and left for the United Kingdom.
An Iranian Evangelist in the employment of Church Missionarv
Society was arrested for preaching at a Special Service held in the C.M 8“
Church on the Iranian New Year’s day (22nd March). The Evangelist
wast fined Rials 50 and warned not to' preach ‘Propaganda’ contrary to
Islam again. To avoid further trouble, the C. M. S. sent him to Isfahan.
(b) Boys’ School {Dafoiristan-i-Jam). —During the year under review,
the School has made considerable progress. Over 100 boys attended regu
larly throughout the year, an increase of over 65 per cent. The Middle
School course can now be completed, as Class XII was started during the
year.
His Excellency the Minister of Education inspected the school early in
the year and congratulated the Principal and staff on the high standard of
work shown. He promised to help wdth free teachers and by the end of the
year the Educational authorities were supplying teachers for 24 periods a
week.
A School camp was held as usual during the summer holidays and over
30 masters and boys spent a pleasant fortnight in the hills.
Games and sports of various kinds still figure largely in the life of the
school and are a considerable help in the building up of character and
manliness
Mr. F. T. B. Snow, who was here for 4 years, has been transferred to
the Stuart Memorial College at Isfahan and the Revered M. T. Lord arrived
from Ireland to take his place.
1935 may be summed up as a satisfactory year in every way.
(c) Girls’ School.—The school started the year with only 31 pupils.
This decrease was due to the fact that it was the first year a ,
had been entirely of the Middle Grade, the two hig er p y ■
having been closed. The smallness of these numbers mad f r ®. open fi ^
of the school in September 1935 a very anxious tme, as it was the
occasion on which the school had to depend on P U P' 3 numbers have
Government schools. It is to the credit of the s ‘ a «
steadilv increased, and there are now 45 regu ar s closing of the
Th„ i, a. i—x" s
Primary School in 1932 Th^number w i9g5 ^ account of the
several parents withdrawn their girls in d The Headmistress
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Government Middle School. ihpc of the C M.S.
As was mentioned in the 1933 ^’j^bilitv to get the school officially
Girls’ School in the past has been t . Woodroffe took a degree in
registered by the Iranian Governme • as fit to be head of any
England last year and has now be ^ i g fi ucat i 0 n authorities hold that
Higher Grade School m Iram recognition will be only a matter of
after this, the granting of the school lecog
form.
225(C) F&PD
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