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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎136r] (284/414)

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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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15.
11. BRITISH INTERESTS,
Trade.
Owing to postwar restrictions and lack of shipping
space imports, chiefly of tea, sugar and cheap cotton fabrics,
which usually come from India and^Jrucial Coast remained much
lower than in previous years.
The usual exports of Kerman and tribal carpets
were sent to the U.S.A. in small quantities and consignments of
dried fruits, pistachios, and goatskins went to India and the
Arab coast.
General cargo and merchandise landed by Messrs. Gray
Mackenzie & Co. Ltd. amounted to 1062.50 tons and 317.25 tons were
exported. The total number of passengers who arrived by 3.1.
Steamers was and those who left for other ports amounted to 502.
Messrs. Frank Strick & Co. Ltd.
Ships of the Strick Line loaded 6326 tons of red
Oxide and 114 bales of carpets and landed 26,000 bags of sugar
during the year.
am .1.0. - » ' ' i , . .
Throughout the year, the A.I.C.C. continued uo maintain
their depot at Bandar Abbas from which source the province is
supplied. They received the following oil products during the year :
Aviation spiMt
Petrol
Kerosine
Gas Oil
Fuel Oil
Lubricating Oil
Grease
Tins.
1095b
273440
145779
75508
2185
Litres.
247235
91637
293490
56175
Barrels.
640
101
With the exception of lubricating oil and grease most
of the above was forwarded to the interior in 9S1 trucks.
in. FuPwDiGN rrrr^TS.
No foreign interests are represented at this port.
IV. LOC'-L GOVERNMENT.
Aqai Knsain Sepehroia was ?armand ar from 1.4.46 to
14 # 7.46, Aqai Mohammad Pezhman officiateu. ^rom 15.7.4o to 5.11.4o
and Aqai Ivladhat TroiB 6,*-.^6 to
Aqai Sepehmia is reported to have misappropriated
p maior portion of the municipal tax which was being collected
at the rate of rials 150/- per truck and which was sur.posea to
be s cent for the improvement of the road between the town and I.aiband
Customs laai M ansur ftani' officiated as Director of Customs
from 1.4.46 to 16.4.46 and Aqai Ali Khalili was Director of Customs
from 17.3.46 to 31.12.46.
Pilferage and bribery within the Customs was rife
throughout the year, and senior officers in the Department are
reported to have ammassed fortunes of about half a milxion toroans
a nc* through bribes from merchants and undervaluation O l .neir
lood- ' Pilferage of Government sugar and tea has taken place on a
large scale and other valuable goods have not escaped their
attention.

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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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