Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎59r] (118/669)

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Ko. 1787 issued at Athens on the 29th March 1937 arrived in
Ahwaz in search of work on the 9th of January 1943.
(16) Noel Pietro Bakula, a Yougoslav survey®r holding passport
No. 60547 issued at Istanbul on the 23rd of April 1943, reported
'hat he arrived in Ahwaz in -epteinher 1942 and is working with
-,he Headquarters, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Service Command.
(17) Hajilfcullar Molayi, an Afghan subject holding passpsrt No.
2®7^/141 issued at Meshed ®n 2nd Daymah 1321, arrived cn 11th
January on his way to Kerbela,
(1#) Stevan itupar, a Yugoslav carpenter holding passport No.
15562/41 issued at Tehran on 3rd June 1941, has come tc iihwaz in
search of w®rk after the completion of the irrigr tion work on
which he was engaged at Ahu Dasht.
v 11) Ingard Tjomsaas, a Nowegian without travel documents T»ut
'he holder, according to permis de sejour, of passpore No. 3588
issued at Oslo on 15th July 1939, arrived from Tehran on 12th
January. Formerly employed ®y Kampzax, he now works ler Alf
Berpan contractor an*i had come on his business.
V.
Economic
\2i) The prices of wheat and rice show a very slight tendency to
tall. In the absence of any large scale purchases in 'he area,
where is no firm ruling rate but the fact of a slight i‘ r <ll seems
Indisputable. ^he fall in the price of wheat is attributed to
two groups of factors; the first is the sale of Goverr.rr.ent
by cultivators (the amount involved might seem to 8c
seed wheat
eoo small to affect the general price level Vut the reduction
cf the quantity «f wheat supplied tc the town bakers - 21 tons
in Janqary 1942 as against 5 tons in January 1943 - as the result
cf Persian authorities feeding their own officials and fnc British
mi-itary its mm labour should be born in mind) ; the second
srtup of factors depends on circumstances making f«r *piimism
in regard to this year's wheat crop - timely and sufficient
rain, a distribution of seed wheat fairly generous in view of
existing stocks, and a general feeling of hope in regard to the
wicer issues of the war.
v^lj H. M. Consul-General and /ice Consul made rapid tcurs to
acquire a general iu'ipression of the quantity of wheat sown. In
jli.uzistan as a v/h»le it appears that sowings in the irrigated
areas were slightly larger than last year, though sowi.igs on
ur.irrigated lands appeardt to be less. The speed at which
Government seed has been distributed to outlying centres and
planted shows considerable variation throughout the discrict;
'here seems, however, to be no ground for apprehension that the
Government seed wheat will not be sown in time.
v 82) According to the military authorities about 1#0C sheep or
gtats T:r ill be required daiij to meet consumption*the areas ®f
Ahwaz, Khorramshahr, Abadan and Andimeshk. The Furchsse Officer
seems convinced that by purchasing, direct from the owners and
sc cutting out the middlemen he will be able to reduce the price
wnich according to him had been unnecessarily increased during
:he last 6 months by the inflated prices paid in Basra and
o or.s equen11y in Abad an,
^2:3) Pith reference to para 1§ of ilawaz Diary for the second
half of Decern)er, further particulars have been obtained about
'he transactions over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. rice in Dizful,
n lie two leading land omiers reported that the wnglo--Iranian Oil
Co. has taken 300 tons of ric^ at the price originally agreed
upon, but the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. was net getting and would