مجموعة ٢٨ /١٧ "بلاد فارس؛ يوميّات؛ قنصلية كرمان ١٩٣١-١٩٣٩." [و‎‎٨‎٥] (١٠٦٩/١٦٩)

^ Diary of His Majesty’s Consulate, Kerman, No. 10, for the month of October 1933.
246. Personal. —His Majesty’s Consul
left for Tehran via Yezd and Isfahan on
the 6th.
247. Local Officials. —Reference para
graph 214.
The new Director of Education has not
yet arrived in Kerman on account, it is
said, of ill-health and Mirza Abdul Karim
Khan Ibrahimi, the next senior official of
the department, is in the meantime acting
in his place.
248. Reference paragraph 215.
Murtiza Mirza Qahramani arrived here
as Chief of the Census Department for
Area No. 6, including Kerman and Persian
Baluchistan, on the 7th and took over
charge from Zamzadeh. It will be re
membered that Qahramani was Chief of
Census in this province for over a year
during 1930-31.
249. Reference paragraph 154.
Amir Khan Suhrabian, Provincial
Director of Finance for Kerman, returned
from leave in the middle of the month.
250. Mirza Sayyed Hussein Khan, Mir
Jahangiri, Public Prosecutor of Appeal
Court, proceeded on sick leave to Tehran
on the 22nd,
251. Mirza Abdul Vahab Khan Zahidi,
chief judge of the Bedayat Court in
Kerman, proceeded on transfer to Tabriz
at the end of the month, and Agha Sheikh
Ali Marvasti is acting in his place.
252. Reference paragraph 218.
Sayyed Fakhr-ud-Din Khan Padram,
the new Investigating Judge (Mustantiq),
arrived from Tehran at the end of the
month.
253. Dadrass (Nayyer-us-Sultaneh), the
Assistant Governor-General, received
orders of transfer to Zahidan, as the Gov
ernor of that place, towards the end of the
month. He has, however, applied to the
Ministry of Interior for short leave on the
ground of ill-health and hopes to be able
to leave for Tehran in a short time.
254. Local Affairs. —A Commission of
Enquiry composed of the following mem
bers arrived from Tehran on the 26th :—
Sartip Abul Hassan (Military).
Khan Pur-Zand.
Sarhang Shahzadeh (Amnieh).
Akbar Mirza.
Naib Sarhang Qasim (Conscription).
Khan Khudayari.
Yawar Nazmi (Police).
(Nizam Humayun).
Asayesh (Interior).
L , Sayyed Razi Khan (Justice).
2umd.
Mirza Isa Khan (Finance).
Ilahi.
Saari Aslani. (Census).
The first action of the Commission was
to put up notices in the bazaars, inform
ing the public that they were prepared to
receive and examine all complaints against
the various Government Departments. In
the meantime, each inspector has been
making a general inspection of his respec
tive department.
Among the petitions received by the
Commission there is said to be a large num
ber in connection with the recent closing
up of tanks in public baths, vide paragraph
219.
255. Reference paragraph 194.
The Kerman town and environs have
been divided into two areas by the Regis
tration authorities, and the time allowed
for the registration of property situated in
the first area is two months, beginning from
22nd November 1933, with a possible ex
tension period of one month.
The registration fees amount to 1.25 per
cent., excluding ‘ preliminary expenses \
which vary in accordance with the value of
the property concerned, starting from
Rials 6 for property valued up to Rials 500,
to Rials 500 for property valued over Rials
500,000.
256. The Municipal tax of 3 per cent, on
private houses, to be collected for the last
three years, has now been fixed on the
basis of a nominal rent of 3 per cent., to
the great relief of house owners, as a nomi
nal rent of 10 per cent, had been proposed
by the ea;-Govemor-General.
Houses let out on lease will have to pay
8 per cent, of the rent.
257. Reference paragraph 220.
Work on a very small scale has been re
sumed on the new roads in the town and I
the Governor-General has again been
studying the question of finding a water
supply for the new avenues. Attempts
have also been made to flood the land in
the new circus for future cultivation of
trees, as the result of which a section of the '
balus-trade has sunk in.
258. Reference paragraph 222.
The contract for the purchase of a wool
carding machine for the new company in
Kerman was concluded in Tehran, in the
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