'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [183r] (370/418)
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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as Deputy Governor, and suggested as relief the name of his protege, Eafat-un-
Nmm, formerly an assistant m the Nazmieh for many years. In March the
change was sanctioned but Rafat-un-Nizam shortly afterwards fell out with
the acting Financial Director which eventually resulted in the recall of the
Governor-General and Furuzan and the removal of Eafat-un-Mzam himself
azin was recalled from Khabis and he remained in charge till the end of the year.
In June the Municipality Committee was formed in accordance with the new
regulations ana was set to the task of finding new sources of revenues to replace
the previous grant from the road tax fund. It is stated that the new taxes, if
carefully collected, will yield from T. 40,000 to T. 50,000 per annum.. The
members of the Committee, however, complain that while they are consulted in
proposing and levying new taxes, they have no say in their disposal.
In addition to the new taxes, a house tax of 3 per cent, on the calculated
annual rent is to be levied from the new Persian Year (March). This will be over
and above the 5 per cent, collected by the Finance Department. The whole income
on tins account will in future go to the Municipality chest.
The mam artery road which was cut through the middle of the town last year,
involving the demolision of about 100 houses, was improved during the latter
part of the year under the superintendence of an engineer from Tehran, who is
said to be an Afghan. At the time of writing further houses were under' demoli
tion to straighten the road as far as possible and an allotment of T. 20,000 had
been sanctioned for the work. It is not expected that the owners of demolished
houses will be compensated to any appreciable extent or that the sum of T. 20,000
will all be actually spent on the work.
M. the Shah inspected this Ivhayaban one early morning, when on visit
to Kerman last November, and was certainly not pleased with its conditions or
the aspect which the demolished houses presented.
The Baladiyeh have not yet taken up the question of improving the existing
roads through or round the town which are in miserable condition, but they have
improved the lighting.
Locusts.- The jurisdiction of liis Majesty s Consulate, Kerman, extends over
an area of 70,000 square miles, in which postal and telegraph facilities are few
and far between, and the machinery of administration is nebulous. It will thus
be understood that it is difficult to obtain detailed or accurate estimates of locust
movements and habits. During the months of February to June locusts visited
Kerman nine times and did slight damage on two or three occasions. They also
visited the various districts causing damage in which the district of Bardsir suffered
the most.
Since 1896 this was the seventh year in which locusts visited the province,
but for the last four years (1927 to 1930) they have visited the province conse
cutively. ^In 1930 the direction of flight was generally from South and South-
West to North and North-East. It would seem that swarms tend to fo low the
foot of a mountain range, sending columns up the valleys to lay their eggs and then
rejoin the main stream. At the beginning of May I was on the mountain range
to the East of Kerman which runs North-West and South-East and is about 11,000
feet in elevation. Swarms of locusts could be observed trying to cross the moun
tain, but being turned back by the opposing wind.
Enquiries whether any return of locusts from the Persian plateau to the
South had been observed show no evidence that any such return flight takes
place, and I am inclined to think that none of the locusts which invade the Persian
plateau in spring and early summer, or for that matter any of their descendents,
ever return to the land of their origin.
Mirza Mahmood Khan, Fateh, the chief of the ocust campaign organization
in Persia, accompanied by an Armenian Assistant and 25 pupils of the School of
Agriculture, Tehran, commissioned for the Kerman Province in connection with
the destruction of locusts, arrived from Tehran in February. Fateh sent out
these ' pupils in batches towards Bandar Abbas, Bam, Narmashir and Jiruft.
Locusts had, however, already appeared and the mission had brought with them
insufficient poison to cope with the requirements of the whole Province. Their
method was not popular as the peasants lost some of their live stock that grazed
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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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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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