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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the Year 1936' [18v] (36/74)
The record is made up of 1 file (35 folios). It was created in 1937. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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J. here is an Austrian veterinary surgeon established in Shiraz.
An Italian engineer is employed by the Municipality and by the Cotton
Monopoly Company.
American archaeologists under Professor Schmidt were at Persepolis
in the winter of 1935-36, but work had not been resumed by the end of 1936.
Ihe Bahrein Oil Company has been endeavouring to obtain houses in
Shiraz for summer quarters for their American and European employees.
Several Americans visited Shiraz during the summer. They have also been
trying to make arrangements for supplies of fruit and other local produce
to be shipped from Bushire. It seems unlikely that the difficulties of tran
sport and of export regulations will be surmounted.
Foreign visitors to the district during the year 1936 included the
U. S. S. li. Ambassador and the Italian and Roumanian Ministers from
Tehran : the German Minister at Baghdad : the members of the French
Air Mission in Tehran and various archaeologists of American, French and
Belgian nationality.
Miscellaneous remarks. —Active work at Persepolis stopped in October
and all the Americans departed, leaving a Russian photographer in charge.
Mr. McCown was sent from Rey to be in residence in the event of the
Shah's visit taking place, but left again at the end of the year.
The Tombs of Darius (Naksh-i-Rustem) can now be reached by car on
one of the tracks made for collecting beet.
The Louvre Mission was working at Shahpur during part of the year.
The maximum temperature recorded in 1936 was 98° in September, as
compared with 98° in August of the previous year. The lowest temperature
recorded in the winter of 1935-36 was 24°. In mid-December 1936 the ther
mometer fell to 22° on several days. The cold was unusually early as well as
extreme and some damage was reported to fruit trees, while many early
seedlings perished.
The rainfall for the winter season of 1935-36 was 4 inches less than in
the preceding year. Prospects for the present season indicate even greater
shortage of water.
> A. S. WATKINSON,
His Britannic Majesty's Consul.
J3ritish Consulate, Shiraz,
January 28, 1937.
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The file consists of Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1936 (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1937).
The Report, prepared by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , summarises important information relating to the Gulf and notable events in the Gulf during 1936. The Report contains a review by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , and separate sections on each of the agencies, consulates, and other areas that made up the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . The information provided includes lists of personnel, local administration, military and naval matters, aviation, the political situation, trade and commerce, medical reports, meteorological reports, and related information.
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- 1 file (35 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents at the front of the Report, on folio 2.
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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover, and continues through to 37 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- IOR/R/15/1/716
- Title
- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the Year 1936'
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- front, front-i, 2r:36v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence