'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎134v] (268/416)

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A branch of the Agricultural Bank was opened in Shiraz in the month of
May to assist growers.
The Agricultural departments took measures to promote the cultivatinn
of cotton and beetroot.
Cotton Spinning Mill .—The Shiraz Cotton Spinning Mill of 3,200 spindles
machinery by Platt & Co. of Oldham, motor and electrical equipment by the
General Electric Company and Metropolitan Vickers, to which two power
engines by Mireless are to be added shortly, began work in May 1934 under
a British mill manager.
Mr. Hussein Agar (’Etemad-ul-Tujar), formerly a merchant of Manchester
is the chairman of the board of directors and the moving spirit in the venture'
The output of the mill was quickly disposed of for several months in advance
The undertaking has proved so profitable that it is proposed to increase the
number of spindles.
Full output has been handicapped by the lack of suitable labour.
The construction of a second mill was being seriouslv considered at the
end of the year by one of the leading local industrialists.
Sugar refinery.—The promise of Government to endow this Province with
a Sugar factory An East India Company trading post. materialised in the summer when work upon the buildings
started on a site at Marvdasht, near the waters of the Bandi-i-Amir on the
Shiraz-Persepolis road.
Tn the autumn it was found that the Agricultural Department was unable
to complete the building owing to the incompetence, etc., of the officials and a
contract for the work w^as given to Swedish public works contractors in the
capital.
The machinery is to be supplied by the Skoda Works and is due in the
spring, via tne Caspian. The contract provided for despatch via Bushire but
it was round that some of the parts were too heavy and too bulky for road trans
port from that port. -
. , J rh u e Prospects of this factory An East India Company trading post. are dependent upon the successful growing
<> e ee roo in the Province, a cultivation upon which there is little practical
r n ° wle o! e at the preSent - The actual cos t of production is
t0 fro 5 1 20 P P er cent - to 300 per cent, greater than the price at
hich sugar of Continental manufacture can be offered c. i. f. Bushire.
rmdnimport trade of Shiraz was stagnant throughout the year
m governing commerce and the fears of the further
the import of other commo'S: 0 "* t0 gr ° UPS ° f merChantS “ the Capital) ° f
the AhwJ e »!!ti 0 \f l!' Govern 1 ment to develop the port of Band-i-Shahpur and
Bushi^raorA rl a t mmera i- 9Ute l t0 the N ' at the ex P e "se of the port of
Customs imnort nimtC ,fl T '^!" raz became apparent in the allocation of the
throuah thebinrAf p,' f 18 realised that if the project can be carried
whilst the Isfahan nnd^iv, 1 * 6 wlP ® erve solely to feed Shiraz and the district,
n iSt tlle ls± ahan and other northern markets will be lost.
St>viet^ R ^Icrehant^h°iv S ? nccee ^ e( ^ wres .^ n g the premier position from the
of both countries in rod . ^ een ^ lss atisfied with the business methods
consignment " Cmg qUotatlons ^mediately upon the sale of a large
A quotatioif for^hTsunSv • se ^ lr 1 e , q mar ket for other commodities,
nrice of those of British^and p e ec .^ ric hghtmg bulbs at 80 per cent, below the
Electric lighting Company" ContmeiltaI mak e was received by the Fars
Prices ruling for lambskins irff^^d^ 61 ^ c< J a ^^ ons with sales of skins and gum.
shipments imnossible but tho A 011 ^? 11 end of the year have made further
throughout The year Asians have continued to purchase steadily
American, Russian S anVTtTer 1 FTTn nCantl1 gone forw ard to the London,
towards the end of the year gave a^tron^nfto the mlZC™