File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [‎108v] (212/270)

(iv) Encouragement
of education.
(v) Improvement
of British trade
methods,
(vi) The lighterage
question.
m tne case of exports, particular firms might be asked to arrant
for trmi purchases of samples of product What is required^
S Ull l interest and pressure should be brought to bear
Kian^uTf m 0 ^/^ 86 h ,T D0 kno r led § e of > interest in^
eisian Gult matters, and to secure this end the Commissioners
would advise that Persian experience should be regarded as one
of the essential qualifications for appointment to the office of
Director of the Persian Section of the London Commercial
Bureau, if such a post be created ;
(c) that the Government trade representatives should, when oeaoe is
restored, make a point of touring widely during a part of each
year m order to furnish reports on the produce of the co„"^
and to work up in the towns a trade in lines of British goods not
T r .'Dejmported, in direct correspondence with firms in the
Sluroif S lthp Illd >- AfT" British iXe^in
agiicuituie m feouth Persia might be expected to enlarge o. r p a fi v
the cultivation of cotton, cereals, etc., and the export o? produe e y
susceptibffi onSprovemlnt 48 Much ofwW P “P 8 ® 5 i ? J trade at tbe P octs are
the Persian in new items of trade and lo in,f h l ?e01! i busmess to interest
experiments. nd 10 lnduce hlm to “ake commercial
questiL^fSteXe ^ “ the P a8t > been attacb ®d to the
create a separate company to work ! ,+Tp Panlea - C0n0erned should combine to
despatch of 1 steame^and^reconily^
constitution of a g^eranKaScXp'any^'^ 1 ^ “ faT0Ur ° f the
discon^inuei^andfin^ny case^tte^xdittcafch 3 bar V BsWering at Fao may be
question in the Shatt-ahArab of Xch of its s^i^ncX ^
India A Company have hr-eirsX^hetTwn"! that tbe British
at Persian ports but at Bahrain also Xf h S ht ? ra S e difficulties not only
Bushire undZheirmaU conS AwffigTiXZTd ^ 1
3t hold oyer the outside hnatmon tEqtt v. l. hci\e obtained
disinclination to amalgamate their ifg^Lffir'arrZXeSs’with C 0 0 t 1 j isiderable
panics and their attitude is natural enmioS g Wlttl otIier com -
the largest proportion of the caro«o comine to ^ C S! n P an y ^a^^le
provide their own liehters and nlant in r?i °+ Uf P or ^ prefer to
steamers and it is improbable that they woul<f XeZoXyXfaX f °r
“reVr^ttl’ ° nl f ^Is^irthr&w °mail
steamers. 16 permltted to retaln such Precedence over all other companies’
unwilling to join