مجموعة ٢٩/ ٢٢ "بدلات تعويضية بدلاً من الإعفاء الجمركي للمسؤولين العاملين في بلاد فارس والخليج الفارسي" [و‎‎٨‎٨] (٣٩٦/١٧٧)

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_GOPY
(K 10316/2711/234)
IT' 386.
British Legation,
Gulhek.
21st August, 1934.
£500.
Sir,
I have the honour to make the following ohservations
on your despatch No. 353 (K 6442/2711/234) of July 17th,
on the subject of a local allowance for His Majesty's
Consul at Ahwaz.
2. In regard to the high standard of living in Khuzistan,
of which full details were given in iay despatch No. 60 of
February 5th last, I would mention that while the staff of
the Anglo-persian Oil Company, with whom His Majesty's Consul
comes much in contact, have facilities for obtaining imported
goods and stores at specially favourable rates, partly by the
terms of the Company's concession and partly owing to the fact
that a large organisation such as the Anglo-Persian oil
Company can economise by buying at wholesale prices for its
staff. His Majesty's Consul is obliged to buy in the ordinary
retail market and must import through the ordinary channels
and, consequently, pay the ordinary and exorbitant customs
dues and other imposts.
3. I venture, also, to mention one other point which seems
to merit particular consideration in the case of the Consular
officer at Ahwaz. This is the fact that his subordinate
Vice-Consul at Mohammerah, an Officer of the Indian Political
Department, receives no less than five hundred pounds a year
more than his superintending consul who is senior to him
The Right Honourable
Sir John Simon, G.C.S.I. ,
etc,
etc,
etc,
Foreign Office,
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