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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [130r] (259/442)
The record is made up of 1 file (221 folios). It was created in Nov 1911-Mar 1917. 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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1879
Oral Answers. 10 July 1912 Oral Answers.
1880
Dr. MACNAMARA: The yard craft men
referred to are borne as seamen; under
their conditions of service they are some
times required to be on board their vessels
for twenty-four hours a day, and their
hours of duty, in a week, so calculated may
amount to the numbers stated in the ques
tion, but the hon. Gentleman should under
stand that from time to time many hours
are spent alongside the jetty merely wait-
ing for duty even during the working hours
of the dockyard. Further, when a tug is
detailed for emergency duty, and lies
alongside during the night, the crew sleeps
onboard. We have recently issued an order
that every endeavour is to be made to cur
tail the hours of duty of yard craft men, in
excess of ordinary dockyard working
hours, so far as is practicable consistent
with the requirements of the service. With
regard to the question 1 of wages, petitions
were presented by representatives of these
men at the recent hearing of petitions by
the Board, and the matter is.now under
consideration.
Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE: Can the
right hon. Gentleman say when an answer
will be given ?
Dr. MACNAMARA: I have already in
formed the hon. Gentleman that the
matter does not lie altogether in our
hands. There are other Departments
concerned.
Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE: Do I under
stand that the tugs were employed in con
nection with the manoeuvres of the Fleet
yesterday, and if so, will consideration be
given to the claim of the men for extra
wages ?
Dr. MACNAMARA: In regard to the
first part of the question the hon. Gentle
man knows the men were employed
because he was on board. I do not know
whether the work they did comes into their
ordinary pay.
Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE: Is the right
hon. Gentleman aware that there are no
messing arrangements for these men on
the tugs?
Dr. MACNAMARA: What we desire is
that, so far as possible, the men should
not be kept on the tugs longer than is
necessary.
Nyasaland (Failure of Grain Crops).
7. Sir J. D. REES asked the Secretary
of State for the Colonies whether he can
give the House any information regarding
the season in Nyasaland and such steps
as may have been taken to deal with the
results of the failure of the grain crops
on which the natives chiefly live 1
The SECRETARY of STATE for the
COLONIES (Mr. Harcourt): I was in
formed by the Governor in January that
there was a deficient rainfall in the Port
Herald district and I approved of his pro
posal to spend up to £500, if necessary,
on food stuffs for the relief of suffering
natives. From later communications it
appears that the Governor has taken
steps to restrict the removal of food stuffs
from the affected districts, and that he
has other measures in contemplation as
to which I have not yet received his
recommendations.
Sir J. D. REES: Is the situation con
sidered serious ?
Mr. HARCOURT: I hope it is not so
serious as it was at first thought.
Migration of Population.
8. Sir CLEMENT KINLOCH-COOKE
asked whether it is proposed that existing
arrangements for migration of population
between the United Kingdom and self-
governing Dominions should form a sub
ject of inquiry by the Dominions Royal
Commission ?
Mr. HARCOURT: Yes, Sir.
Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE: Will the
right hon. Gentleman say whether it is not
a fact that both he and the President of
the Local Government Board declined to
appoint a Royal Commission to inquire
into this very subject when I asked a few
weeks ago that this should be done 1
Mr. HARCOURT: I am not aware that
I declined to appoint a Royal Commission.
I have no power to do so. F stated that
this matter is going to be inquired into by
the Dominions, and that if there is an in
quiry by the Dominions, it is obviously un
necessary to duplicate it.
Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE: Exactly.
NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT.
Casters of Harness Furniture.
9- Mr. COOPER asked the Chancellor
of the Exchequer whether, seeing that he
gave a pledge to a deputation from the
Associated Chambers of Commerce on
30th June, 1911, that no trade would be
included in Part II. of the National Insur
ance Act other than the building and engi-
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other papers relating to railway projects in Persia [Iran] and the surrounding region. The papers deal with the proposals for, planning, and progress of, several railway lines, including one from the Mediterranean to India, the Trans-Persian Railway, the Baghdad Railway, and the Nushki and Dalbandin extension from Quetta. The documents discuss the merits and flaws of the proposals, technical issues such as gauge sizes, and the impact of such projects on Britain's relations with Russia, Germany, France, and Turkey.
At the back of the file are a number of official reports on Parliamentary debates within the House of Commons, dating from 10 July 1912 to 25 May 1914, all of which feature railways (folios 128-218). Also at the rear of the file are three maps:
- General Map of Asia with proposed British, German, and Russian rail lines added by hand
- War Office map of the Middle East, showing railways and railway projects
- As above with further rail lines added and details of gauges given.
Correspondents include: Arthur Campbell Yate, army Officer; Henry McNiel; Francis Richard Maunsell, army officer; George Lloyd, politician; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington, army officer and war correspondent; Lord Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Leader of the House of Lords; Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (Lord Lansdowne), statesman; Lucien Wolf, journalist and historian; Charles Staniforth, businessman and railway investor; Charles Prestwich Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian; Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Director, Imperial Bank of Persia; and Colonel Frank Cooke Webb Ware, former Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai.
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- 1 file (221 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 221; 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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- Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia
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- 87r:90v, 95r:221v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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