‘File 16/37A-I Anti-Locust Measures’ [126r] (251/900)
The record is made up of 1 file (448 folios). It was created in 31 Aug 1942-18 May 1943. 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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PARTICULARS DECLARED BY SHIPPER.
Leading Marka.
Hh JiiAKAT •
Distinctive
Numbers.
Number of Packages
or pieces
or
Quantity or weight.
Description.
100 Bags Locust poison
Bait.
l\V
SS>
Number oj Packages (in words) One hundred only
MEASUREMENT AND WEIGHT.
Tons.
Feet.
Inches. Tons.
Cwfc.
Qrs.
Lbs.
(Tw<
3aid to be
2 k 10
o tone ten hundredweights)*
«■»
Freight (cO . +112/&/-per toi&QQmt.Total Rs.
Steam flarioation Company, Xfmftefc
{I iicoi pointed in England.)
Hhipji^rs (ire requested to note particularly the terms and conditions of this
Bill of Lading
A document confirming the goods which a ship has received.
with reference to the
validity of their Insurance upon the Goods.
N. B .—The Goods are ship[>ed and this
Bill of Lading
A document confirming the goods which a ship has received.
granted subject to the following express conditions :—
Any claim for short delivery of or damage done to Goods, and all other claims whatsoever, to be presented at
Company's option at Port of Discharge, or at Ports of Calcutta or Bombay and at no other Port.
No claim for damage will be admitted unless uotiHcd in writing before the Goods are removed.
No claim for short delivery, short lauding, non-delivery, total loss, or any other claim whatsoever, in respect to the
within mentioned goods will be entertained unless made in writing within one month from the date of arrival of the vessel.
in good order and condition: by... Gray...|yiaci£&n^ie ^ ..co .....Ltd •
(As Agents)•
on Board the Ship "BAHQIM” V.34? lying in the
Port of BAHKblN for carriage to.... DUBAI
but with liberty either before or after proceeding towards that Port to proceed to, and stay at any ports or places
whatsoever (although in a contrary direction to, or out of, or beyond, the ordinary or usual route to the said Port of
Discharge) once or oftener, in any order, backwards or forwards, for loading or discharging cargo or passengers, or for
any purpose whatsoever, and all such ports, places, and sailings, shall be deemed included within the intended voyage ;
also with liberty to tow and assist Vessels in all situations and to deviate for the purpose of saving life or property ;
also to sail with or without pilots :...MR...
being marked and numbered as per margin. The said goods to be carried and delivered, subject to the terms and
conditions of this
Bill of Lading
A document confirming the goods which a ship has received.
in the like good order and condition at the Port of... DUBAI
mm. rue Be a idenc y agen t, Bhar j ah * or his or their assigns.
The Company shall not be liable for loss, damage or delay directly or indirectly resulting from any of the following
causes or perils, howsoever occasioned ; viz.. Act of God ; King’s enemies ; piracy ; robbery ; theft or pilferage with or
without violence on board or elsewhere and whether by persons in the service of the Company or not; arrests and
restraints of princes, rulers, or people ; riot* and civil commotions ; strikes, lockouts or other labour disturbances ;
barratry ; jettison ; collision ; fire ; Petroleum vapour ; breakage or leakage ; vermin ; sweat; rust; temperature of
holds ; climate ; rain ; injurious effect of other goods, whether by contact or otherwise howsoever ; perils, danger*
and accidents of the sea, rivers or navigation ; unseaworthiness, unfitness, or defect of any kind in hull, machinery,
tackle, equipment, Engines or appurtenances at the commencement or any stage of the voyage (provided reasonable
means have been taken by the Company at the port of shipment to prevent same) ; any act, neglect or default
whatsoever of pilot, master, officers, mariners, engineers, stevedores or other servants or agents whatsoever of the
Company on board or elsewhere, in the management, navigation or otherwise of the vessel or of any other vessel
belonging to the Company, or in the loading, stowing, carriage, unloading or delivery of the cargo.
The Company is to be at liberty to carry the goods to their Port of Destination by the above or any other
steamer or steamers, ship or ships, Motor vessel or vessels either belonging to the Company or to other persons,
and to tranship or land, and store the goods either on shore or afloat and to re-ship and forward same at the Company s
expense but at shipper’s or consignee’s risk ; and at the like risk, to deviate as above-mentioned.
In all cases and under all circumstances the Company’s liability shall absolutely cease when the goods are free of
the vessel s tackle and thereupon the goods shall bo at the risk for all purposes and in every respect of the Shipper
or Consignee.
Freight at the rate of... AS* 32/8/- ton ..payable in... .Bahrein
by the Shippers as per margin vessel and/or cargo lost or not lost.
Dated at BAHREIN this... iSttihr...day o/... OECKMaBR, 1£4£.
Jn MttneSS whercof the Commander or Agents of the said vessel have affirmed to tWQ
Bills of Lading, all of this tenor and date ; one of which Bills of Lading being accomplished the others to stand void.
General average to be adjusted according to York-Antwerp Rules, 1924.
Thh Bill ef Lading is issued subject to the following further conditions
Weight, contents and value when shipped unknown. The Company is not to be responsible for any loss, damage or
delay, whatsoever, directly or indirectly resulting from insufficiency of the address, or packing, internal or external
nor for condition or content* of re-shipped or re-exported Goods,
The Company reserves the right of charging freight by weight, measurement or value, and of re-measuring or re-weighing
the Goods and chargmg freight accordingly before delivery. Freight on salt, saltpetre, dates, fruit and perishable
goods is to be paid on the weight shipped, and no allowance will be made for wastage, shrinkage, or dryage on the voyage.
The Company docs not guarantee room at ports of transhipment and is not to be responsible for any detention or
delay there or at any other stage of the voyage howsoever caused.
Packages weighing more than 40 cwts. are carried only at advanced rates of freight and by special agreement.
The Company shall have a lien for freight unpaid on these Goods, or upon any portion of the Goods covered by the
Shipping Order or Advice Note grunted in resect thereof, which may not have been shipped, and for any charaes
herein stipulated to be borne, or customarily borne, by the Shipper or Consignee of the Goods
Should all or any part of the within Goods not be found, or if from bad weather or other cause the Goods cannot be
landed during the Vessels stay at Port of Destination, the Company reserves the right to convey same to any Port
before the final or to the final Port of the voyage to be returned thence at the Company's expense, but at the
Shipper s or Consignee s risk ; and should necessity arise for detaining and storing the Goods, it shall also be done
at the Company * expense and the Shipper s or Consignee’s risk ; and the Company.shall not be answerable for the
result of any delay or risk so occasioned or for loss of Market.
Tb oi *♦!!!? 'rl* n0t b ! ^oun^hle for Gold, Silver, Bullion, Specie, Jewellery, Precious Stones, Precious Metals,
Plated Ware, Document*, Works of Art, Watches, Silks or other precious or valuable articles, in any respect or for
Goods of any description whatever the value of which is more than one thousand
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
per freight ton, nor for
goods of which the value exceeds hve hundred
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
for any one package, unless the value thereof shall have been
declared in writing prior to shipment, and a special written Shipping Order or Advice Note granted for same which
^ 10 the L Commar \ der at t ‘ me of "bipment and the
Bill of Lading
A document confirming the goods which a ship has received.
signed with the nature and value
of the goods appearing thereon and extra freight in respect of same agreed upon and paid A wrong description of
Contents or false declaration of value shall release the Company from all responsibility in case of loss seizure or
detention, and the Goods shall be charged double freight on the real value, which freight shall be paid previous
to delivery. The only condition on which Glass, China, Earthenware, Iron castings, or other fragile Goods of a like
character will be earned is that the Company is free from liability for breakage however caused. If medicinal fluids
or any other Goods of an explosive, inflammable, damaging or dangerous nature are shipped without being previously
declared and arranged for, they are liable upon discovery to be thrown overboard, and the loss will fall upon the
Shipper or Consignee of such fluids^ or Goods. The Shipper or Consignee will not only be liable to the penalties
imposed by Statute but also for all damages sustained in consequence of the shipment of such fluids or Goods.
The Goods are to be distinctly marked with the marks, numbers and Port of Destination, or the Company is not
to be responsible for detention or wrong delivery. The Company is not responsible for wrong delivery where marks
are obliterated by seepage. 3
Bills of Lading must be presented and delivered up cancelled before delivery of Goods will be granted.
The Company is to have the option of delivering these Goods, or any part thereof, into receiving Ship, or boat or
craft, or landing them at the nsk and expense of the Shipper or Consignee as per scale of ehnrees to be seen at the
Agents Offices, and is also to be at liberty until delivery to store the Goods or any part thereof in receiving Ship
godown, or upon any wharf, the usual charges thereof being payable by the Shipper or Consignee The Company
shall have a lien on all or any part of the Goods against expenses incurred on the whole or any part of the
shipment. Fire Insurance will be covered by the Company* Agents on application. J 1
Gold. Silver Bullion. Specie. Jewellery, Precious Stones, Precious Metals. Plated Ware, Documents Wo.'ks of Art
Watches Silks or other Precious or valuable articles will not be landed by the Company They will colv he
delivered on presentation of Bills of Lading on board, and will be carried on, or stored, at risk and expense of
Shipper or Consignee, if delivery is not taken during the vessel’s stay in Port. 1
Notwithstanding anything herein contained to the contrary in the event of restrictions of Quarantine Prohibition
Sanitary or Customs or Labour Regulations, Lockouts or Strikes, Blockade or Interdict at the Port of Discharge
war or disturbance or other like cause preventing or threatening to prevent the ordinary discharge of the Domls
or any portion thereof, at the Port of Destination, such Goods or any portion thereof may at the vessel’s ootton
either be put into other vessels or be retained on board and landed and warehoused or otherwise disoosed of as
circumstances may admit wheresoever most convenient to the vessel, and re-shipped thence to destination as soon
as conveniently may be after such restrictions as aforesaid have been removed or be returned to Port of Shiument
and all expenses whatsoever incurred in such landing, warehousing, transhipment, over oirrome or return carri,."e
or otherwise shall be borne by the Shipper or Consignee, the Company having a l.cn on the Goods therefor. *
The Company shall not be responsible for loss or damage of any kind which may result directly or indirectly from
the above causes or any of them, and the Goods shall throughout bo at the Shipper * or Consignee's risk *
Delivery by the Company of packages externally in good condition as received shall bo conclusive evidence of
delivery of full weight and contents. o-ucc ox
FOR THE MASTER AND OWNERS.
!\,r GRAY, MAfXENZJE * 0»7 LU
As .
(or Captain,
for Agents.
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Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to efforts, undertaken by representatives of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit (MEALU), to control desert locusts (first reported in western India in August 1942 (f 3)) along the Arab coast between Bahrain and Oman. The principal correspondents include: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); the Chief Locust Officer (Reginald Charles Maxwell-Darling) and Locust Officer (Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald) of MEALU, who arrived in Bahrain to carry out their work in October 1942; the Defence Officer for the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel H T Hewitt); representatives of the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC); and representatives of the Bahrain shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company.
The file includes:
- reports from Maxwell-Darling and Vesey-Fitzgerald, as well as from numerous other British officials from across the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region, including the British Minister at Tehran, Sir Reader William Bullard, on locust observations. The observations include estimations of the size of swarms, movement and direction of insects, age and colour of animals;
- correspondence relating to arrangements for the shipment of locust poison bait from the Sudan Government in Khartoum, to Bahrain;
- correspondence relating to the arrangements of facilities for the MEALU team on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , chiefly arrangements for suitable vehicles (arranged with the assistance of CASOC and the Defence Officer for the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ), experienced drivers and motor mechanics, finances, and rations;
- papers issued by MEALU, including instructions on reporting locust swarms (ff 136-137), and notes on locust campaigns in sparsely inhabited countries (ff 194-195, ff 385-386);
- a copy of a booklet entitled Methods of Locust Control , produced by the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research and published by the Government of India Press, Calcutta [Kolkota], 1941 (ff 226-236);
- a reprint of an academic journal article entitled Some results of studies of the Desert Locust (Schistocerca Gregaria, Forsk.) in India , by Rao Bahadur Y Ramchandra Rao (ff 266-278). The article is a reprint from the Bulletin of Entomological Research , volume 33, part 3, published December 1942;
- some papers relating to anti-locust activities in southern Iran.
The file contains a single letter in Arabic, a letter to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. from the Ruler of Qatar, Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī (f 334).
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- 1 file (448 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 424-449) mirror the chronological arrangement.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 450; 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 foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-423; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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