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'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [181r] (361/416)
The record is made up of 1 volume (206 folios). It was created in 1932-1936. 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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25
Machinery was sup piieil by the Skoda Works and the building was
erected by the S. I. N. 1. A. P. group of Swedish contractors. The works
are a credit to both firms. c WU1KS
Growers in the area 30 miles round the
factory
An East India Company trading post.
received advances for
the cultivation of beetroot. The crop of the year is estimated at from
Kharvars 40,000 to 45,000 (Tons 11,450 to 13,000). The yield of the beet
is about 18 per centum, allowing for a production of 2,300 Tons of sugar
in cubes and crystals. Quality is white and good. But it is not appreciated
as the people are accustomed to a coarse and slow melting sugar.
The sugar produced! by the end of the year was given at 1,000,000
kilograms (about 980 Tons) of crystals and at 100,000 kilograms (about
90 Tons) of cube sugar. Prices fixed by government were Rials 12'90 per
man Tabriz (6! lbs.) for cube sugar and Rials 12-00 per man Tabriz
(6i lbs.) for crystals.
Cotton Spinning Mills .—The Cotton spinning mill of the Pars Manu
facturing Company (Shirkat-i-Sahami-i-Nasaji-i-Fars) which began work
in June 1934, has proved successful and a dividend of 20 per centum was
declared this year. The profits of the first year’s working are believed
to have reached 50 per centum.
The principal shareholder is now Khalil Beg, Nasir Zadeh, a wealthy
Khorassan merchant.
A second Mirelees Diesel engine, 175 klw., 260 B. H. P. was installed
at the end of the year, as a reserve to the first power engine, by the same
firm, which had been working for over nine months on double shifts.
The Dehkan Brothers, owners of the Shiraz Electric Lighting Power
House, are putting up another cotton spinning mill near their power wot s
in the town of Shiraz. The spinning machinery has be T en , ordere ^f r °™
Germany, iron and steel work for the buildings from India. •
Dehkan'are shareholders in the first spinning mill and are not likely to
compete with it. They will probably turn out other grades of cotton yam .
A qrkulture .—Agriculture benefitted by favourable weather conditions
and by the abolition of the land tax. Financial as ^"
to the growers by the Government. They were pro
marketing of their produce by the Trading Compam s.
No locusts were reported during the year
Wheat and Burfoy.-Statistics are not obtainable but the crop
S Heavy purchases of both products ^ er ® Pament wm made
the year and large quantities are n °^. s , or t ^ vernm ent trading company,
by the Finance Department, acting W1 ^ £
The following were the princes paid
In February : Good grade wheat
In July : i
f For old crop
l
r
In August: 4
I
l
For new crop
Best grade
Medium grade
Third grade
Rials 90 per 6J lbs.
Rials 1-30 j>
Rials 1 * JO >i
Rials 1*10
Rials 1-00
Rials 0-90 „
the basis of the revised price
The prices paid in August were fixed o
of bread ordered by the municipality- obtainable but
Opiitro.—Statistics of the yield ^^^helped by favourable weather
there was a large crop as the cultiva i „ rowers by governmen ■■ ' P.
conditions and the encouragement g iv e „ w prohibited as tb e p
sowings of the crop (Tariak-x-Bahareh) form ^1 government undertaking
is poorer in morphine at this season, w
to buy-in the crop.
225(0) F*PD
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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 1931 (Simla, Government of India Press: 1932); 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 1932 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1933); 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 1933 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1934); 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 1934 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1935); 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 1935 (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1936). The Report for 1935 shows some manuscript corrections.
The Administration Reports are divided into chapters relating to the various Agencies, Consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Bushire 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. . Within the chapters there are sections devoted to reviews 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. ; lists of senior personnel; foreign representatives; local government; military and marine affairs; movements of Royal Navy ships; aviation; political developments; slavery; trade and commerce; medical reports and sanitation; meteorological reports and statistics; communications; naval matters; the Royal Air Force; notable events; and related information.
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- 1 volume (206 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 208 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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