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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [56r] (124/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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Owing largely to^ the efforts of L^-Colonel H.R.P. Dickson G.I.E.,
numbers of bedouin have been induced to engage in manual labour for
the Kuwait Cil Company and che latter have been persuaded to put up
with the waywardness and irresponsibility of bedouin employees.
71 FOREIGN INT^IlEcT S
(a) oaudi Arabia
Relations with the jaudi Government have remained friendly throu*!
out the period under review. Every conceivable precaution is taken
by the Shaikh not to offend his powerful neighbour.
(b) ^ Iraq .
(i) Relations with ♦Iraq have remained correct, but Kuwaitis
were much inconvenienced by the new 'Iraq Visa Regulations which
take no accounu of txie face that Kuwaitis, who have numerous relations
and large interests in 'Iraq, have frequent occasion for visiting
that country at short notice. 0 ,
(ii) On ohe 27th October, Shaikh Lohammad (second son of His
Highness) was fired on by an T Iraqi police car a few miles to the
west of Zubair while returning to Basrah from a hawking expedition.
His right thumb was shot off while another bullet traversed his neck.
His Mutairi guide was killed. The Mutassarraf of Basrah telegraphed
his regrets to His Highness and the latter did not lodge any official
protest.
VII
jis:
DATE GARDENS.
The value of the 180 shares of the Bashiya garden which were
lost in 1944 has been computed at I.D.6,936.681. '
Early in the year the 'Iraq Ministries of Finance and the Interioi
are said to have granted His Highness' tenants the right to cultivate
the extensive mud-flats lying between His Highness' date gardens and
the river 1* when this cultivation is taken in hand it will cause a
very great drop in the value of His Highness' properties.
Certain of the tenants have appealed against the registration of
the estate in the name of His Highness and the 'Iraqi authorities
have made the fact that there is an appeal pending an excuse for
refusing to take action on complaints of theft or wilful damage against
the tenants, 0
VIII COST OF LIVING .
The cost of living has continued excessively high during the
period under review. The daily wage of an unskilled labourer reached
and remains at Rs,5/- plus food and other wages are in proportion.
The rationed distribution of foodstuffs and cloth by the Supplv Denart-
ment proved helpful. J v
The following is a comparative statement of the prices of main
commodities:-
1945
Rs.28/14/- per bag
Rs.76/8/- '» t
Rs.50/- " "
Rs,48/- " Rafa
(660-lbs)
Rs.10/- per basket
Rs, 2/- " lb.
Rs, 2/- " ♦♦
Rs. 2/- " "
tt
bottle
Wheat
Sugar
Charcoal
Firewood
1939 1944
Rs.HT^ Es.SSTT?/-
Rs.8/- Rs. 76/8/-
Rs. 3/8/- Rs. 48/ -
Rs.6/- Rs .48/ -
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Dates
Tea
Mutton
Beef
Fish
Milk
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as. 12/- Rs.15/-
As. 9/- Rs. 2/-
As.2/- Rs. 2/-
As.2/- Rs. 2/-
As. 1/9/- Rs. 1/8/- Rs. 1/2/-"
As.3/- ...Rs. 1/- Rg. 1/-
' < ' t / / ROYAL NAVY
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The volume contains typescript '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 1945' [1946] and typescript '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 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Political 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
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- 1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear 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. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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