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File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers' [56r] (105/495)
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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United Kingdom on the 1st October 191? was estimated at 97%
and in the general cost of living nearly 80%, These increases
not- appearing to be much less than those being experienced in
Persia I informed the Director that there did not seem to be
a justification for applying for a hi^ier scale of relief than
had been sanctioned for the staff of the Indie Office which is
approximately equivalent to
30% on pay up to PadOO per mensem
l]-i% on pay from Rso]00 to P8 o 200 per mensemo
5% on pay from Rbo 200 to Rso300 per mensem.
In reply to this the Director states that the rise of 100%
applied only to local produce tut that figures now supplied
him for cost of living at the beginning of October 1917 show
a rise of from 174 to 223 per cent £ according to locality
over the cost in /ugiet 1914 0 and he considers that there is
every justification for the grant of the increases he had
recommended and he hopes they will receive early sanction.
In consequence of the failure of the harvest on the top of
the already severe conditions produced by the war the rise in
the cost of living in Persia has assumed serious dimensions and
prices being still on the upward grade some relief to the
staff seems to be really necessary. The Director who is on
the spot is in the best position to judge what is required
and I am confident he has not made his recojnmendations without
very serious consi delation and that he regards them as the minimum
that should be granted in the circumstances 0 The request for
relief reached me on the 9th October 1917 y and time has since been
consumed in a telegraphic correspondence before I find myself
a position to submit the application hence any relief that
may be sanctioned should» I think e be granted with retrospective
affect from the 1st November 1917 0
I therefore sutrait that with effect from the 1st November
191?* a special local allowance- in addition to all existing
allowances, may be granted for the period of six months to the
staff of this Department in the Persian Section as follows:-
Director, Superintendents and
.Supreri-i^tendent . 20% of
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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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