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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎122r] (256/414)

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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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Administration Report of the Kerman, lezd and Bandar
Abbas Consular Districts for the year 194-^*
i, li.:.:>c0 ? '3ula^,
(a) K.M« Consul,
(i) Lt # Colonel a # G. Alban, 0,3,£, # held charge of H.M 1 s
Consulate, Kerman and Yezd throughout the year. He also held
additional charge of E.M. Consulate, Bandar Abbas, from 17,4-.,4£
to the end of the year, on the departure oA leave of Mr. R.M.
Hadow.
(ii) H.IiL Consul 1 s Tours,
Lt, Colonel R, G. iilban, O.B,E«, paid several visits
to Bandar .ibbas and Yezd and Bam during the period under report.
He also visited Tehran and Isfahan,
(b) Jxtrq to H,'.!. Consul .
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Mr. N. Lester, held charge of the post of iHxtra
Assistant to H.M, Consul, Kerman, through-out the year.
(c) Consular Statistices.
The following are the British Consulate statistic®
for the year 194©
British Subject s registered H
Visas Granted, 362
Documents legalised..,, ^3^
Fees levied. 76. o. 0 r o o.o s o teplj ? a
(d) Official Celebrations.
On Kew Year's Day and the occasion of H.M. the King's
Birthday, Civil and Military Oi ...icials, notaoles anci lea—
merchants of the town made the usual calls on H.M. Consul.
II. YISIT0K3 TO
(a) British Subjects
1 Mr. C.H. Owen of the British Council, Tehran, and
Major G.A» Naqvi, Attache for Indian Affairs, British Embassy,
Tehran, arrived in Kerman from Tehran on the 23rd January and
returned to Tehran on the *-5th January«
Dr. and Mrs. W. Harris of the C. M. S. arrived in
Kerman from the U. K. on the 25th January and wwt posted to
Shir as towards the end of the year. |
Colonel and i^Irs. v-rasL-relx, o^. uiie i-isn xjiiioaov^.,
Tehran, accompanied by Ivirs. . T , Price, Head Archiviso o_ the
British Embassy, Tehran, arrived in Kerman from Tehran on the
March and left for Z-ahidan on the <c^th March.
The Right Reverend Bishop Thompson and Mrs. Thompson,
arrived in Keriran from Isfahan on the 21st March and returned
to Isfahan on .the 11th April.
5 Mr. H. Campbell, Director of the Lynch Company Ltd.
and his branch manager of Isfahan, --r. R.r.L. T /:srd, toge-h^r
with Mr. G, Grieve, Resident Representative In the Far East of '
Ruston Horns by Ltd, arrived in ICerman from Tehran an£ the 27th
and returned to Tehran on the 29th April.

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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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