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refrigeration. These rooms are used for the storage of meat
butter, fruit and fish from Abadan. M. I. S. Hospital has a
4 tons capacity plant which may be altered for the manufacture
of ice but its normal duty throughout the summer is in connec
tion with the air cooling plant of the heat stroke ward.
Haft Kel. 1 his plant has a total ice making capacity of
9 tons per day. It is built up of one 5 ton and two 2 ton units.
One 2 ton unit may be connected to a cold storage room.
Cach Saran. This field has an ice manufacturing capacity
of 5 tons and a cold storage refrigerating capacity of 2 tons.
Agha Jari .—Ice manufacturing capacity is 2\ tons. Cold
storage capacity is approximately 2 tons.
Qanaweh. Two small A. S. Refrigerating machines supply
a total of 1,000 lbs. ice per day. No cold storage capacity.
i ( .if 2 ‘~. Two A> S - Mac hines which have a total capacity of
1,600 lbs. ice per day. No cold storage capacity.
Sec. 5. FIREWOOD AND TIMBER .—Firewood is very
scarce in Basra and Arabistan generally. Such quantities as
are available in Ahwaz are floated down the rivers Karun and
Ab-i-I)iz from the Bakhtari hills in the form of rafts. Supphes
are usually collected during the summer months for winter
consumption.
With the exception of the safsaf or willow, which is found
at Mohammerah (Khorramshahr), trees are equally scarce in
southern Arabistan. In Northern Arabistan, the banks of
the Karkheh and Ab-i-Diz have large belts of brushwood,
with gharab or Euphrates poplar, the sarim, the tamarisk,
the blackberry and the liquorice bush or sus, in small quantities
Nec. d. OIL SUPPLIES. M. T. /W.-Supply for the
whole area, including Basra, emanates from Abadan, where
the average daily output is 5,000 tons. The local market is
served both from filling stations maintained by tank-lorries and
by 4 gallon tins, which are manufactured and tested in Abadan.
! 8 seasonally, but are always in excess of
l<Ki,UOO tins in Abadan main storage.
F i. d f° Areas.—The whole of the petrol requirements for
the fields areas is manufactured by several small distillation
umts which utilise a local crude oil supply as a charge for the
plants. These small plants are situated at M. I. S., Haft Kel
- g ia Jan, and Gach Saran. In addition the plants at M. I. S ’
Agha Jan and Gach Saran are capable of supplying gas oil for
7 g r S - Aviatlon s r >irit is supplied from Abadan and
small stocks are maintained at, or adjacent to, the landing