'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎103r] (205/416)

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Amii Kliaa Suhrabian (a Persian Armenian) held the post of Provincial
Director oi finance throughout the year aud being a capable and tactful
Finance and Revenue. oihcial, the administration of the Finance
t , , Department in this province has improved all
round since his appointment. An official of this department was put under arrest
eaiiy m the year on a charge of misappropriating money while holding the post
of Financial Assistant at Bam and Baft.
Opium.—ihe. outturn for the opium harvest was slightly smaller than the
previous year, amounting to just over 2,000 Tabriz Mans. The amount of
taxed opium issued to shop-keepers by the Monopoly Department for local con
sumption 111 the province, during the year, amounted to about 3,500 Mans, the
shortage being made up by supplies from other provinces.
. . r ^ lie income of the Monopoly Department on taxes was, therefore, about one
million Rials, which is probably a record so far as Kerman is concerned.
Searching of houses of all classes of the inhabitants on the least suspicion
wa,s more frequent than before, although the actual quantity of contraband
opium confiscated was practically negligible.
The total fines awarded for smuggling during the year amounted to between
7 and 8 thousand tumans, but only a small proportion of this was actually
realised, as most of the parties concerned served the required terms of im
prisonment iii lieu of fines.
As the result of enquiries made by a special inspector who arrived from
Tehran in August, the person in charge of the Monopoly godown was put under
arrest in connection with a shortage in the stocks of opium amounting to nearly
Rials. 40,000.
_ There was little or no smuggling from the other provinces and no exports
during the year.
There are no indications as to any decrease in the number of opium addicts.
Herr C. Meyer remained in charge of the National Bank of Persia until
the end of September, when, his resignation having been accepted, he handed
National Bank Of Persia. ov f charge to M. Joseph Bahoshi, a
naturalised Persian Subject, said to be of
Arab or Syrian origin.
M. Bahoshi appears to be a marked improvement on his predecessor in deal
ing, with the Persians and in the conduction of business in general, and, in spite
of the fact that the terms offered by the Imperial Bank of Persia were on the
whole more favourable than those of the National Bank, the latter are said to
have handled a greater proportion of the banking business during the year.
No new branches were opened in the province during the year, but the
project of establishing an office at Bam was being studied by the Manager at the
close of the year.
Yawar Sayyed Sadiq Khan Sheikh-ul-Islami held the charge of the Police
Department until the middle of July, when he was relieved by Yawar Sayyed
Yusuf Khan Khatimi, who held the post of
p0 lce - Commissioner for the rest of the year.
The prestige of the Police force in Kerman, which had improved under
Sayyed Sadiq Khan, appears to have suffered since the arrival of the new chief,
who is said to be not nearly as efficient as his predecessor.
The dealings of the Police authorities with the Consulate have been stiff and
formal.
Mirza Riza Khan Tajaddud held the post of Chief Judge of the Appeal Court
Kerman throughout the year. It will be remembered that the Appeal Courts
Tugtiee for Kerman and Khuzistan had been amalga-
~ ' u 1 e ' mated during the previous year and that the
staff of the Appeal Court, Kerman, had, therefore moved to Khuzistan in
December 1932, returning to Kerman in the month of May of the following year.
Intimation was, however, received from Tehran in the middle of the year
that arrangements were being made for the institution of an independent A.pneal
Court in Khnzistan and that in future it would not be necessary for the staff M
the Appeal Court, Kerman to move to Khuzistan in the winter months.
The project of extending the jurisdiction of the Bandar Abbas Adlieh Court
to Sir inn, which had been under consideration in the latter part of 1932, did not
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