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'File 14/13 Miscellaneous postal correspondence regarding despatch of foreign mails, telegrams etc' [186r] (371/676)
The record is made up of 1 file (336 folios). It was created in 15 Oct 1944-30 Dec 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Bahrain,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
February 17th, 1948.
X W-’ to bring to your kind notio« that I have
deposited *y saving Pass Book Account to the local Poet-
-OXTice on 24.7.47 - Pass Book No:175376 - for entery of
interest, but slnoe then they did not return back the saae.
f Jo long I waited in the hope of getting. I can understand •
their difficulty as of the staff are quite new to
thair job clue to the migration of Hindu otaff, but even that,
it can by no means tkae such & long time to issue one *e68—
-Book wnich has been lost by themselves. 1 have sent regis-
-terca letters to the rost-haster Karachi and superintendent
P.T. Hyderabad, but fallen to get a 8ix.glt reply from any
of them. Probably they think it below their dignity to rep-
— ly to such enquiry. In the month of iiovember '4( Postal
Superintendent c«ar.e down to Balirain. I ^.et him twice and
put forward wy cfse. That gentleman promised to send aiy
.B. soon hi^ arrival at Karachi, but uptill now I could
not get any. I had no mlnci tc lodge a complaint against
our ne<v GovernMont, but after begging at their door for the
last 7 months without any fruitful result, My only hope
liec in you fir. I like to make it clear that I am going
on leave by the end of March next. If I did not get ay
f.a. before that period? dir, you can well imagine in kaw
much difficulty I will be in.
I hope that you would b© kind enough to ask the iostal
authority to return ay r.B. or my money by the middle of
March next.
I am grateful to the local >ost-^aster who tried his best to
bet back icy I.B. without any success.
Yours most obediently,
Dr. A. tdohsin, of the
Bahrain Government Hospital,
Manama, Bahrain.
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- Content
The first part of the file contains correspondence, notices and telegrams regarding various subjects:
- arrangements for the dispatch of mail and for the despatch of parcels and gifts to the United Kingdom during 1944 and 1945;
- restrictions on dispatch of Christmas cards and parcels for prisoners of war in Germany; postcard service to Greece and Belgium, telegraph communications with France; export of jewellery;
- revision of rates of air mail fees, delays of post despatch at Cairo, Palestine, Karachi.
The second part of the file contains letters on investigations into parcels missing from the Bahrain Post Office in 1948-1950, containing goods and banknotes. The file contains two copies of a 1948 judgment from the Bahrain Court, in Arabic (folios 209-217).
The third part of the file contains correspondence regarding money order services between banks and Post Offices, within the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and with India and Pakistan.
The principal correspondents are: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC); Gray, Mackenzie & Co; Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO); Menashi Ebrahim Cohen & Sons; Petroleum Development Limited; the British Bank of Iran and the Middle East; Lloyds Bank, Karachi; the Eastern Bank Limited; Kuwait Oil Company; the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Inspector of the State Police in Bahrain; the 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. in London; the British Embassy at Tehran; the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs, Sind and Baluchistan Circle, at Karachi; the Postmaster at Cairo; the Sub-postmaster at Bahrain; and various individuals.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (336 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are notes at the end of the file, on folios 312-337. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a number in blue and red crayon, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 338; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional mixed foliation/pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-235; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/1428
- Title
- 'File 14/13 Miscellaneous postal correspondence regarding despatch of foreign mails, telegrams etc'
- Pages
- 186r:186v
- Author
- Government of Bahrain
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