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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎16r] (36/418)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (205 folios). It was created in 1926-1931. 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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trimans paid by the Administration for four posts weekly each way, maximum
weight 100 mans or 650 lbs., delivery in 65 hours, with deductions for lateness :
60 Tumans per 100 mans for extra sendings, and excess to be paid above 100
mans' weight at the rate of 3^ cents of a Ivran pei man to Isfahan, o cents from
Isfahan to Shiraz. Four light Dodge lorries with wired sides were imported
by the contractors and, the winter being exceptionally mild, no interruption of
this motor service occurred from snow or floods. A.s a result the mails now
reach Shiraz from Tehran in 7 to 8 days. Signs are however not wanting that
wear of the vehicles from the surface-conditions of the roads,, and the care
lessness and incompetence of the drivers Avill leave the contractors with little
margin, if not a loss.
On the Bushire road the former contractor, Ali Asghar Khan Dawani Qasid-
bashi was re-employed with the excellent result that the mails, carried by relays
of mules at four points on the 190 miles, now reach Shiraz in 3J days' marching
time, and regularity has been well maintained throughout the winter to the credit
of Ali Asghar Khan. The Provincial Director of Posts, Haidar Khan Barah-
mani is a meritorious and careful official: and the paucity of the provincial
budget alone stops him from improving further and extending postal communi
cations: he has the impression that the Postal Administration is still suffering
from its conflict with Dr. Millspaugh.
Until a large sum be expended on the road from Shiraz to Bushire for re-
alio -nment and re-grading, a motor mail contract would be costly and almost
certainlv liable to interruptions in winter, and a mistake to institute at present.
But of his own initiative, Ali Asghar Khan has arranged to buy a lorry for the
transit on the Bushire-Burazjan section. When motor transport tor mails is
adopted for the whole distance between Bushire and Shiraz a strong effort is
desirable to constrain the Persian Government to alter their present parcel-post
system so that parcels will be automatically brought from the sea-port to the
centre of the province of destination (Shiraz, Isfahan, Tehian, &c.) for payment
of the Customs dues, &c., instead of lying in 'poste restante awaiting instruc
tions from addressees for months. Further foreign postage on parcels should be
arranged to cover inland rates, as in other countries.
Another defect of the postal service in the south arises at times through the
sut)T )1 v of stamps becoming exhausted, when the Persian post-office claims to can
cel letters for foreign postage by a rubber stamp bearing in the Persian language
the words ' Taxe percue '. Instances of addressees in foreign countries having
to uav for the absence of postage stamps, doubtless owing to the oriental script ot
the rubber stamp being unreadable, seem to call for action at the next interna
tional postal convention to remedy this abuse by the provision of bilingual ruober
stamps.
As regards the telegraphs, damage to the lines showed a marked diminution
(vide the figures regarding insulators under the heading ' Security ) and, as tar
as the Indo -European Telegraph Department is concerned, there were fewer inci
dents with the Military through forcible occupation of the rest-rooms. Ihe build-
S L shirab town next to the Persian Telegraph Office, which had been m the
care and occupation of the Department since the line was constructed, was handed
back to the Persian Government early in 1926, but has not been occupied by
the Postal Department as was intended, owing to the attitude of the Persian Tele-
o-raph Superintendent. Local newspapers and politicians from Ume to tiniG
Srte that branch telegraph lines should be constructed from Shiraz to Fasa
i Damb and Lar and other districts, and managed by the Persian Government
direct. Mention has already been made under the heading _ Military that
vireless material for the army had been brought to Shiraz m the summei
w
1925.
Roads and Communications.
Though credits of 14,000, 22,000 and 17,000 Tmnans had been allowed the
branch in Pars of the Public Works Department m the three years ending March
1925 very little can be shown for it on the Bushire and Isfahan loads. P ec "la
tion and misappropriation was practised from the local Persian superintendent of
thTdenartment downwards. The exceptionally heavy rams and snowfall of the
winter of 1924-25 considerably damaged the surface of the motor-track. How
ler since Signer Argenti, the Italian engineer, has been in charge there has been
■hotter and more substantial work done. The causeway over the Qara-aga.li
r v r af zinTan was restored and strengthened only to have one arch brought
down again by the flood water of March 1926: the precipitous descent of the

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The volume includes 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 1925 (GIPS, 1926); 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 1926 (GIPD, 1927); 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 1927 (GIPD, 1928); 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 1928 (GIPS, 1929); [ 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 1929 ] (GIPS, 1930); and 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 1930 (GIPS, 1931); . The volume bears some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. , and provide a wide variety of information, including 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. ; details of senior British administrative personnel and foreign representatives; local government; military, naval, and air force matters; political developments; trade and economic matters; shipping; aviation; communications; notable events; medical reports; the slave trade; and meteorological details.

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1 volume (205 folios)
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The Reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover and continues through to 207 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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