مجموعة ٢٩/ ٤٧ "توظيف كُتاب أخبار" [و‎‎١‎٨] (١٤٠/٣٥)

saakhT :
British Legation t
Tehran,
6 th April, 1933.
Sir,
On receipt of
your despatch No.
76,
I caused
llirsa Hussein Quli Khan (Vafcil-ed-Dowleh) to he informed
that he should cease to perform any duties for this Legation
or the Vice-Consulate at Resht and that althoug^his salary
would be discontinued on this account he would recelwe an
Ts. 35.
Ts. 35.
annual compassionate gratuity.
2 » I venture, however, to urge that as a special
exception, his gratuity might be raised to Tomans thirty
five a month. Apart from the fact that he has served His
Majesty's Legation faithfully for thirty five years, his
salary was fixed at its present rate of thirty five Tomans
a month when the toman was worth a great deal more than now.
It has never been raised in recent years, as have the
salaries of most other Government employees in Persia, and
now that the rial has depreciated, its purchasing power has
greatly decreased. In effect, therefore, the salary has
been little more than a pension for some years and a further
reduction will undoubtedly be a severe financial blow to
/a*ii-ed-L>owleh Equally, of course, the salary of thirty
live Tomans costs His Majesty's Government much less today
than when it was first fixed.
As regards Kabul, Major Laly informs me that
the *newswriter" never visits the Consulate in person, but
delivers messages through a third person. Major Laly
considers that he runs no risk, but I have no means of
judging how far this is true, and the fate of Rashidi forms
The Right Honourable
Sir John Simon, O.C.S.I.,
etc., etc., etc.,
The Foreign Office.