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Coll 28/41 ‘Persia. Trade Reports. Kerman 1924–’ [‎147r] (293/313)

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The record is made up of 1 file (154 folios). It was created in 14 Dec 1925-20 Apr 1943. 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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2. To come to practical proposals which (as you
rightly emphasize) are more useful than general
observations; you outline three schemes marked (a),
(b) and (c) on page 1 of your 'Notes' of the 10th
October. It is hardly worth discussing them in view
of your statement that none of the firms you have
consulted is willing to act on any of them. Hie
suggestion (b) that representatives should visit
Persia with samples would of course have an admirable
effect, and has been successfully acted upon by a
German dye producing film which sent a representative
to visit the carpet firms in this town last summer.
The suggestion of a sample room is not one which I
have favoured or even wished to press for. Your last
suggestion is that I should give you the names of
firms of good credit and repute and state exactly
the commodities which it is desired to import. The
latter information I had already given you in para
(3) of my despatch No. 142 of the 11th February 1925
and in ray despatch Mo. 275 of the 13th March 1925. I
repeat the information now so far as Indian products
are concerned and add the names of reliable importers
in respect of each item.
A* On this point I join issue unequivocally with
the Indian tea merchants who have discussed the
question with you. I know - and they do not know -
what qualities of tea come to Kerman; and I can
positively assure them that it is of extre^y poor
quality and that the Persian consumer would gladly
drink better tea if he could only get it. But he can
not. Being unable to obtain good tea direct from
Indian plantations many are driven to purchase Brook
bond's or Lipton's teas imported in tins via India
at what I consider the very high price of 5/6 to 6/-
(shillings) per lb. I myself purchase Darjeeling tea
ln Karachi whlch ls greatly superior to Brook Bond's
tea

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Printed trade reports for the Kerman Consular District in Persia [Iran], submitted by a succession of British Consuls for Kerman (Henry Duncan Graves Law; John Hunter Davies; Edward William Charles Noel; Cecil Henning Lincoln; George Arthur Falconer).

The contents of the reports vary from one year to another, but usually feature summaries of: the district’s financial situation; foreign trade; taxation; military affairs (commandeering of equipment, conscription); agriculture; industry (including textiles and carpet manufacture); communications and transport; state undertakings and control of trade; public utilities; social conditions (standard of living, unemployment, public health); information for travellers. Most reports include appendices with statistical data on trade, including: imports and exports at the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. port of Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; imports and exports of key commodities into and out of Kerman; prices of foodstuffs; imports of Russian and Japanese goods.

Each report is preceded by 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. minute papers containing handwritten comments on the enclosed report. Many of the reports have pencil annotations.

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

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 156; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-156; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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