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File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers' [55r] (103/495)
The record is made up of 1 item (250 folios). It was created in 3 Dec 1908-5 Dec 1918. 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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. . P.Wo 3314/17
NOTE BY DIRECTOR IN CHIEF INDO EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT
DATED 13th DECEMBER 1917 0
k With a letter to my address dated 3rd September last the
Director at Teheran forwarded selected copies of letters ait
of a number he had received from members of his staff asking
that 0 in view of the hign cost of living then prevailing in
Persia 9 the increase of 40% of pay which had been granted to
them for the period from 1st April to 2nd November 1916
(Council Minute dated 10th March 1917, P 0 W.526/17) mi^it be
continued. It will be remembered that the increase of 40% of
pay was granted as a measure of relief for the heavy fall in
the rupee-kren exchange though the staff appear to have
regarded it in the light of^cornpensetion for the high cost of
livingo I pointed out to the Director that this inference
was incorrect end suggested that I might 8 pply f° r sanction to
an increase of the Famine Prices Compensation Allowance
(Persian Section Signallers RsdS^ Higher Officers Rs.30 per
mensem) for ell classes to Rs»60 per mensem and asked him,
should he think this insufficient,, to submit proposals to meet
famine conditions,, as apart from war conditions if possible, at
the same time warning him that compensation for the latter had
not been granted to Govermient servants whose income exceeds
£250 per annuuio The Director replied, that the increase I
suggested was not sufficient to meet the existing conditions
which showed that local food stuffs had risen in price 100%
since the 1st August 1914 and imported articles more, and he
recommended that an allowance of 20% of pay should be granted
to himself and Superintendents, 30% to other gazetted officers,
and 50% to non-gazetted officers including Persian Section
Signallersc I then ascertained from him that the rise in
prices quoted by him had been endorsed by the Legation at
Teheran, and the Consuls in the provinces, except at Yezd
where the rise was stated to be Qbi%o
The Labour Gazette for October 1917, page 359 0 showed
that the rise since the war in the price of foodstuffs in the
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This part contains correspondence relating to the salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers, mainly those employed in Persia.
The correspondence mostly consists of: letters from the Foreign Office to 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. , including enclosed Foreign Office correspondence; draft letters from 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. to the Foreign Office; correspondence by telegram between 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. and the Foreign Department of the Government of India; and internal 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. correspondence. The enclosed correspondence in letters from the Foreign Office largely consists of correspondence between the Foreign Office and the Treasury, and between the Foreign Office and HM Minister, Tehran.
The correspondence mostly relates to the payment of exchange compensation allowance or temporary salary increases, to HM Legation Tehran, and to diplomatic and consular staff in Persia generally (due to the high prices and the low rate of exchange caused by the First World War), and the Secretary of State for India in Council accepting a moiety of the cost as a charge on the Indian Exchequer. The file also includes some correspondence relating to the extension of exchange concessions to Maskat [Muscat], Bahrein [Bahrain] and Shargah [Sharjah].
Most of the correspondence dates from 1916 to 1918, but the file also includes copies of correspondence from December 1908 to June 1909, regarding the payment in Persian currency at a fixed rate of exchange of the rupee salaries of non-gazetted consular establishments and of the telegraph staff in Persia (folios 236 to 250).
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- File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers'
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- 4r:7v, 9r:64v, 65ar, 65r:226v, 231r:250v
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