File 7747/1920 Pt 2 'Persia: – Ahwaz Consulate. (Consul for Arabistan)' [‎381r] (67/204)

3. In deciding the
he paid in krans instead
convenient to take as the
and wages paid at other c
positions rather than to
exchange of the rupee.
amounts of the salaries now to
0i ru - Dees it has been considered
basis the usual rates of salaries
on solar posts in Persia for similar
tame the current kran rate of
fc * ' ;lt re Sard to the far rash engaged at the high
salary uf one hundred and fifty krans a month, I am to
point out that the previous sanction of this department
should have been obtained for the payment of the increased
r-ite 01 salary, and to sta i»e that, when this farrash leave;.,
ris successor should be engaged at the normal ^salary.
o• ine allowance for lighting, etc.,has been
calculated on the basis of last year's expenditure, taken at
four fifths of the actual cost. The remaining fifth should
De paid by the consular officers using the residential part^
of the building.
6. It is to be observed that works of reference are
supplied free of cost by this department, if requisitioned.
This item has therefore been deleted from office
contingencies, and the allowance for sundry expenses has
been estimated at two thousand krans.
7. Information was required respecting the cost
of official journeys at your post, and the particulars
furnished in your despatch under reference are not sufficiently
precise. An allowance of five hundred krans has, however,
been sanctioned to cover the cost oi ofiicial journeys in
Ahwaz but it has not been found possible to make an allowance
as/