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'File 10/21 Enquiries re: sugar-beet' [1br] (3/176)
The record is made up of 1 file (88 folios). It was created in 8 Jan 1932-12 Dec 1936. 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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Confidential:
H.B.M's
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
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BAHKAin:
THE CUSTOMHOUSE,
BAHRAIN;
8th January, 193E,,
12th Ramadhan, 1251.
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I submit herewith for your inspection a sample of
English Beet Sugar, Java Sugar, and Russian Beet Sugar.
The Java sugar is a good staple quality, end is a
commodity which has been regularly imported into Bahrain for many
years, chiefly by Hindu merchants, in bags weighing about £E8 lbs
gross. ^ - i,v^
The Russian beet sugar approximates tq the Java sugar
very closely, though it is a little more bluish 1 in appearance,
and possibly not quite so sweet. Yet it would be very difficult
for an ordinary retail purchaser to distinguish between them.
This sugar hascome forward in bags weighing about 226 lbs gross,
and is perhaps a little cheaper than Java sugar
The English beet sugar can be readily distinguished, as
it appears whiter, i.e, purer, than Java or Russian; it is perhaps
a little sweeter than these two kinds, and there is very little
difference in the cost of them. If the English beet sugar were
Ireely imported here, I believe that it would slowly become very
popular; but it happens to be very badly packed in thin gunnies
which do not bear rough handling, and ieak, with a consequent loss
to the importer; hence it is unlikely that much English beet sugar
will come to Bahrain. Could the attention of the Board of Overseas
Trade be drawn to this point, please ?
The Russian beet sugar is a novelty in Bahrain, only one
import of fifty bags having come forward, and that in the past week.
It was despatched hither from Karachi by Messrs Assanmal Tickamdas
to Mr Dewanmal Permanand here.
Enclos:-
VlKECTQ&^&r CUSTOMS,
and
PORT OFFICER. BAHRAIN.
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Papers relating to imports of sugar into Bahrain. The British Agent was keen to promote imports of British sugar beet into Bahrain in the face of foreign competition, particularly from Japan. The file includes a letter from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. (Percy Gordon Loch) to 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. (Trenchard Craven William Fowle) summarising the position of British beet sugar in relation to its two competitors, Java cane sugar, and Russian beet sugar, which notes that British sugar leaked from the bags and was more subject to deterioration from the dampness of the climate, 8 April 1934; a memorandum by the Vice-Consul, Bushire (Frank H Todd), on the import of British sugar into Bahrain, with covering letter from 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. to the Department of Overseas Trade, London, which recommends improvements to the ways in which British sugar was bagged, 31 December 1935; and correspondence between 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 the British Sugar Corporation Limited, 1936, in which the Chairman of the British Sugar Corporation states that it was not possible for his company to compete in the Bahrain market, as the whole of the company's output was consumed in the United Kingdom market, and beet sugar suffered from competition with foreign sugar.
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- 1 file (88 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically from the front to the back of the file.
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Foliation: the system in use appears in the top right-hand corner of each folio, circled. Also foliated in top right-hand corner (uncircled), 1-71 (appearing on folios 1B-71). Notes foliated separately: 1-10 (appearing on folios 72-81).
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- IOR/R/15/2/1357
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- 'File 10/21 Enquiries re: sugar-beet'
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- 1br, 4r:5v, 6r:6v, 10r:10v, 12r:13v, 14r:14v, 20r:20v, 31r:31v, 32r:32v, 47r:47v, 49r:49v, 51r:51v
- Author
- deGrenier, Claud Cranbrook Lewis
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