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'Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen.' [8r] (20/176)
The record is made up of 1 volume (86 folios). It was created in 1906. 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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MISSION TO SOUTH-EASTERN PERSIA POR 1904-1905. S
is situated about a mile-and-a-half from the shore, and three miles from the town
of Bander Abbas and the Custom House. It proved a very comfortless place,
next to nothing being provided for travellers, and the accommodation being
as primitive as it was limited.
Our discomfort was increased by the annoyance given us by the Belgian
Director of Customs, M. Cattersell. This official had received orders to treat
the Mission with every consideration, and to admit its baggage duty free.
He either misunderstood, or took upon himself to neglect, his instructions,
and ordered us while we were detained at the Quarantine Station, which, as
stated above, is three miles from the Custom House and town, to hand him over
all our basrgage, etc., to store and appraise. These annoyances continued for
some days until several telegrams, which I was forced to send at considerable
trouble and expense, brought him reiterated orders.. He also took it upon
himself to disarm the Persian Guard, which the Deputy Governor of Bander
Abbas, acting on orders received from Tehran, had supplied to escort us to
the frontier of the Province of Bander Abbas. The Sultan in command
reported the matter to me through Khan Bahadur Asghar Ali.
I mention these details partly to show that there is more than a little
truth in the complaint, constantly heard from Indian subjects and from
Persian Traders alike, that the Customs authorities often cause them quite
needless trouble, and that they are specially addicted to placing unauthorized
restrictions in the way of British and Indian trade. If we, who had been
granted special facilities from Tehran, suffered as we did from the vagaries of
the Customs Official at the Port, it is obvious that others not similarly situated
must often suffer more. M. Cattersell is no longer at Bander Abbas, and the
official, who has relieved him, is, I am informed, acting with consideration and
tact.
The foregoing tends to show that we want a strong Consul at Bander
Abbas, a man of experience and weight, and that an important post like this
ought not, under any circumstances, to be left for a considerable time in charge
of a Goanese clerk, as was the case when we were there. A Consul has now
been appointed, and from the keenuess he has shown in his work I have every
confidence that the interests of British subjects will be carefully looked
after.
As soon as we were free from quarantine, we proceeded to work, receiving
and returning the visits of Persian Officials, and making enquiries into the
trade of the port. On the 7th of November we set out on our journey
northwards to Saiadabad in Sirjan.
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Report by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, FRGS, FSA, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. Submitted to the Government of India, and the Committees of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, Cawnpore [Kānpur], and the Indian Tea Cess, Calcutta [Kolkata].
Publication statement: Calcutta: Government of India, Foreign Department, 1906.
The report is divided into the following sections:
- I. Introduction.
- II. A General Report.
- III. Notes on Trading Centres, trade usages and other matters of interest.
- IV. Imports and Exports, comprising: a) Articles of Commerce. b) Resumé.
- V. Appendices: A. Tables of Weights, Measures and Currency; B. Statistical Tables; C. Trade routes, description and map [missing]; D. Tables showing cost and time of transport and keep of animals; E. Blank business contact form; F. Itinerary of journey of Mission.
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- 1 volume (86 folios)
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The volume contains a contents page at folio 5.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 86; 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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