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Court in Kerman, proceeded to Tehran
in the middle of the month to answer
the charges of corruption brought against
him as the result of enquiries made by
Shahshahani, Inspector from the Ministry
of Justice.
192. Reference paragraph 161.
Mirza Riza Khan Ameri, an inspector
from the Central Monopoly Department,
ariived nom Tehran in the latter part
of the month, to enquire into the cases
of misappropriation discovered in the
Kerman Monopoly Department. The
person in charge of the Monopoly go-
downs has consequently been put under
arrest in connection with a shortage in
the stocks of opium amounting to nearly
Rials 40,000.
193. As the result of complaints made
by the town bakers against the land-
owners for demanding arbitrary prices
for wheat, a meeti ig was held at the
Government House on the 3rd of the
month, when the principal land-owners
were asked by the Governor-General to
co-operate with him in keeping the price
of bread to a reasonably low level.
There has been a marked decrease this
year in the amount of harvest for wheat
\ in the vicinity of Kerman town, due to
several qanats having been damaged by
the floods in July 1932. It is however
hoped that the crops in the outlying
districts, which are said to be com
paratively good, will make up for this
shortage to some extent.
194. Reference paiagraph 85.
Muhammad Hassan Khan Shahpuri
(Iqtidar-us-Sultan), formerly a member
of the Judicial Department, Kerman and
lately on transfer to Gilan, having been
appointed Chief of ihe Registration
Office, K^rman, arrived here on the 23rd.
195. Mirza Mahmud Dabistani and
Muhammad Ali Khan Amir Ibrahimi,
deputies for Kerman and Rafsinjan
respectively, arrived from Tehran on
leave during the month.
196. Military. —The Officer Command
ing, Kerman Brigade has received
instructions from Tehran to propose a
suitable site for the construction of new
military barracks in Kerman, the funds
for which seem to have been sanctioned
by the Centml Government.
197. Security .—No reports of any
robberies on the roads in the province
were received during the month.
198. Miscellaneous. —Mr. F. T. B.
Snow and Dr. G. E. Dodson of the
C. M. S. paid visits to Isfahan and Yezd
respectively in the early part of the
month.
199. Mr. Mesrobian, originally a
Turkish Armenian, from SultanaWrl, ^
relieved Mr. Kerestidjian as Manager of
the Kerman branch of Messrs A. and M.
Karagheusian American Corporation for
Overseas, an American^carpet firm.
Bandar Abbas.
200. Local Official .—Reference para
graph 172.
Agha Ismail Khan Bahaduri, Governor
of Bandar Abbas, returned from the
Ginau hills on the 13th.
201. Mirza Muhammad Khan Mansuri,
Chief of the Malieh Road Guards, left for
Gohra on the 3rd and returned on the
5 th.
202. Reference paragraph 141.
Agha Muhammad Khan Ashrafi, the
Chief of the Justice I'epartment, returned
from leave on the 27th.
20 >. Yawar Sayyed Hussein Khan
Safavi, the Officer Commanding Coastal
Guards, arrived via Kerman on the 25th
204. Local Affairs. —iishrafi, the Chief
of the Judicial Department, opened the
local court, in the absence of the Public
Prosecutor and the Livestigating Judge,
on the 30 th.
205. Under instructions from Tehran, '
the Police authorities have been
censuring all foreign mail bags during
the month, with a view to seizing
the newspaper 4 Al-Baluch ’, which
is said to be anti-Persian and prints
articles about making Baluchistan
an independent state. All Soviet news
papers nave also been confiscated.
206. It was brought to the notice of
the local Director of Finance that from
lour to five hundred date palms had been
uprooted and large quantities of dates
destroyed by a violent gale at Gohra
some time at the end of July last. As
the land owners had, for this reason,
asked for remission in the amount of
revenues due by them, the Director left
lor Gohra for local inspection on the Crd
and returned on the 5th. He has now
promised the land-owners that he will
represent their case to higher authorities
with a recommendation from himself.
207. British interests. —According to
letters received from Lingah by certain
Customs clerks at Bandar Abbas, the