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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the Year 1936' [23r] (45/74)
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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33
The troops left for their summer residence (Ginau mountains) on the
14th July, and returned to Bandar Abbas in September.
Sarhang Nasrullah Khan, Director-General of Military Music, arriv
ed from Bushire in January and left for Kerman.
The famous Abdul Hussain Kamoran surrendered with 126 of his
followers in April. As reported he was appointed by the Government to
guard the roads of Bashakard and is paid a salary of Rials 60.000 (£750)
per annum.
Conscription. —972 conscripts were discharged and 2,580 were enlisted
during "the period 15th Mehr to 30th Azar (7th October to 21st December).
Mines. —Iranian Mining Engineers and Inspectors from Tehran paid
frequent visits to the Red Oxide mines at Hormuz Island during the year.
The Customs Department has been working the Red Oxide mines.
During the month of October Sulaiman Zadeh, a Mining Engineer, arrived
from Tehran and started work in the salt mines on the Island. He also
started the construction of a road from the salt mines to the beach in front
of the Customs House for the transportation of salt. Plans have been
submitted to Tehran for the erection of a Government building and store
room on the Island.
Two geologists und^r Mr. Abdaaleyan arrived from Tehran to proceed
to Jask from where they would go to Lingah and Bustanah to survey the
mines.
Messrs. Martin Brothers of Tehran were granted the sole monopoly
of sales of Hormuz Red Oxide in India and the East and shipped 3,000 tons
of red oxide to Calcutta during the month of June.
Mirza Abdul Mohommad Danishwar of the firm of Irano-Japan
Trading Company, Tehran, who is reported to have been granted the mono
poly right of the Salt mines of Namakdan (Kishm Island), in partnership
with the Banque Falahati (Agricultural Bank), arrived during November,
and was accompanied by a Russian Engineer and a mechanic. Work has
commenced at Namakdan and it is said that 6,000 tons of salt are ready for
export.
Mr. Eichi Machi, representative of the firm of Mitsui Bussan Kaisha
Limited, Tehran, arrived from Tehran during the month of November.
After visiting the salt mines of Hormuz and Namakdan he proceeded to
Japan. It is believed that this Company intend competing with the Irano-
Japan Trading Company for the purchase of salt from the Sherkate
Namak.
13,837 tons of Red Oxide were shipped to foreign countries during the
year.
Shipping and Navigation. —146 steamers of all nationalities aggregat
ing 330,308 tons entered and cleared the port of Bandar Abbas. Of these,
131 vessels with a total tonnage of 262,868 were British, 10 vessels with
a total tonnage of 45,000 German, 3 vessels with a total tonnage of 13,500
were Japanese, and 2 vessels with a total tonnage of 9,000 were Greek.
'Russian interest. —11,001 bags of Russian granulated sugar and
25.505 bacrs of Russian loaf sugar were imported at Bandar Abbas for the
Iranian Government during the year.
British Consulate Kerman, C. H. LINCOLN, Major,
Dated at Bandar Abbas, 4th February 1937, His Majesty's Consul
461C) ExAffairsDept
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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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- Title
- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf for the Year 1936'
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- front, front-i, 2r:36v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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