Coll 29/12 'Bushire: office allowance of consul-general' [‎139r] (281/603)

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Ext, 2969A5
Financial Secretary,
Please see the (Jovernment of India letter below about the
grant of dearness allowance to the clerical establishment in
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
2. The Government of India have sanctioned, provisionally
and pending approval by H.M.G., the grant of dearness allowance
on the scales recommended 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. and shown
in paragraph 2 of their letter, for the period August 1st 1942 to
June 30th 1943.
3. The Government of India estimate the additional cost
involved at about Rs. 76,800 (£5>76o) a year. This covers
expenditure at -
(a) Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Kerman, Khorramshaii^Koweit
and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , the cost of which is divisible
between Imperial and Indian revenues; and
(b) Bahrein and Muscat, the cost of which is wholtly borne
by the Government of India.
4* Since February 1942 the Government of India have had the
power to sanction, without reference to H.M.G., diplomatic and
consular expenditure in Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. up to a limit
of £ 1,000 ^F. 10 248/431)* I believe that this limit refers to the
amount which may be sanctioned at each individual post . Since
the action taken by the Government of India in this case applies
to six posts where expenditure is divisible, it appears that they
would have been justified in themselves according final sanction.
If you agree with this interpretation of the^ule, we might inform
,the Government of India accordingly, without referring the
idatter to the Foreign Office (though a copy of the correspondence
wbuld be sent to them). The Government of India will then be
anle to arrange for the continuance of these allowances after the
end of the sanctioned period, which has already expired.
5'. Pleas 8 see also the similar case at Ext. 2970/43, which is
travelling with .these papers.
* iq. vi f.