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Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’ [‎6v] (12/226)

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The record is made up of 1 file (111 folios). It was created in 6 Mar 1943-5 May 1945. 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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experience laot season has ehalcen confidence of
Shailchdoms in our judgment if not our motives end
I do not feel justified in pressing them furthex**
more especially in view of very heavy losses
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3» Please confirm that price of ( s i 20)
shillings per hundredweight f*o,ho Basra {? for)
basket dates covers all charges and (7 taxes)
other than freight from Basra payable by purchaser.

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The file is concerned with the supply of dates to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. States – Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. – via a co-ordinated purchasing scheme in Iraq operated by the Ministry of Food through their agents Andrew Weir and Company.

The main correspondents are as follows: the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. (Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior), officials of the 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. , officials of the Middle Eastern Supply Centre, officials of the Ministry of Food, officials of the Ministry for War Transport, and occasionally representatives of the Government of India.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (111 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

The subject Ext 329/43 (Supply of Food to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ) consists of three files: IOR/L/PS/12/786-788.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 113; 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.

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Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’ [‎6v] (12/226), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/788, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100044115568.0x00000d> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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