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‘Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Persia. Report for the Year 1908-09 on the Trade of the Provinces of Seistan and Kain.’ [‎4v] (8/50)

The record is made up of 1 file (25 folios). It was created in Jan 1910. 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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8EISTAN AND KAIN.
The figures for 1907-08 do not include goods sent by parcel post.
On the question of the accuracy of the statistics supplied with this-
report, it should be observed that as the Persian customs duties are
specific, no great pains are taken in assessing values. Errors are bound
also to have crept into the statistics collected in Nasratabad and
Birjand, owing in the first place to the source of information being
mainly Persian, and in the second, to the unit of calculation being a
“ load,” which is, of course, an indefinite quantity.
The rate of exchange has been taken at 50 krans = \l.
Miscellaneous notes regarding the resources, &c., of Seistan and Kain
have been reprinted from last year’s report, in the hope that beyond
giving some idea of the annual progress of trade with Seistan and Kain,
each year’s report will serve as a brief handbook of information for those
desiring to interest themselves commercially in these provinces.
II. General remarks and conclusions .—Whilst Persia generally has
been in a state of unrest during the past year, the provinces of Seistan
and Kain have preserved their normal quiet condition.
The year was a notoriously bad one for trade on the Indian side.
On the Persian side also—in these provinces at least—conditions were
the reverse of favourable, chiefly owing to deficient rainfall. In a
pastoral country like Seistan and Kain, any considerable shortage in
the rainfall such as occurred in 1908, not only reacts adversely on trade
by diminishing the products which form some of the chief items of
export, and reducing the capital of the country, but it causes lasting
injury to the prosperity of the people by impelling flock owners,
who find themselves confronted by a fodder famine, to kill their young
lambs for the sake of their skins, which in Persia fetch a good price.
This has been largely the practice during the year under report, and the
efiect on the exportation of wool, raw and manufactured, will doubt
less be apparent for some little time.
An examination of Table 1 at the end of this report would make it
appear that British and Indian trade has received a set back during
the year. It is certain that fewer goods of British and Indian origin
actually reached Seistan and Kain than in the previous year (which was
the best on record), but the fact must be considered in the light of the
following table, which shows the value of foreign imports during the
past two years according to routes.
Foreign Imports according to Routes.
Route.
1907-08.
|
1908-09.
Origin.
Nushki
Kerman
Yezd
Bundar Abbas
Ispahan ... ...
Total... ...j
£
29,046
8,672
3,862
1,735
3,287
£
32,376
7,638
1,026
1
British and Indian, with a small
percentage Continental
1 British and Indian, 20 to 25 per
j cent. Continental
46,602
41,040

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The file consists of a printed report on the trade of the provinces of Seistan and Kain [Sīstān and Qā’en] in Persia [Iran] for the Year 1908-1909, by Major Roger Lloyd Kennion, HM Consul for Seistan and Kain. It is Number 4396 of the Annual Series of Diplomatic and Consular Reports. The report was edited at the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade, and presented to both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom in January 1910.

The report includes a table of contents, which lists sections including: tabular statements showing currency, weights and measures, and population and products; the movement of trade in articles in which British and Indian industries are principally interested; openings for British trade; the comparative progress of foreign competition; difficulties which the law and practice of the country place in the way of trade; trade routes; concessions to traders; local products; livestock; mines; factories; current prices; the cost of living; population and health; and statistics of imports and exports.

The report includes a map showing trade routes in Seistan and Kain and the surrounding area (folio 3).

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1 file (25 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 25, 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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