مجموعة ٢٩/ ٧٤ "إعادة تنظيم الخدمة القنصلية في بلاد فارس: إنشاء استراحة في شيراز؛ الترتيبات في أصفهان" [و‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٩٥٦/٢٣١)

bathrooms* Cold water tanks could be supplied for about
one hundred and twenty rials* I should therefore prefer
to economise on the bathrooms and spend a little on
replacing the unutterably shabby collection of floor
coverings.
17* A new agreement has been signed with effect from
April l t providing for the lease of the premises which we
now occupy for one year at a monthly rental of three hundred
and sixty rials, with first refusal for a similar period
subsequently* The lease rent includes use of garage, for
which we have hitherto paid separately, and supply of
water for the garden* The landlord has recently replastered
the exterior of the buildings where necessary and whitewashing
is at present in progress* Provision is made for two new
bathrooms to be available, with tiled floors and the
necessary drainage, in the event of the landlord taking
away the present bathrooms which he states to have been
sold along with the adjoining property*
18* The landlord declines to agree to an option of
renewal of the lease on similar conditions in respect of
rent for a third year* No such provision was made in the
previous lease* It is not without difficulty that he has
been persuaded to accept the same rent for this year* The
new agreement has been registered in the Sabt-i-Asnad office
and it thus gives complete security of tenure, so that
Mr. Aratoon’s periodical scares may now be safely ignored*
19* I have also looked into the question of resthouse
charges to visitors as laid down in the Rules forwarded to
His Majesty’s Consulate at Shiraz along with Mr. Butler’s
despatch No* 15 of May 25, 1936.
20. The contribution by visitors to public funds
appear to be adequate and, as mentioned above, it would
suffice