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File 7747/1920 Pt 2 'Persia: – Ahwaz Consulate. (Consul for Arabistan)' [380r] (65/204)
The record is made up of 1 item (100 folios). It was created in Mar 1921-17 Feb 1930. 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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WSiSIGH OfiICE, S.W.l.
8-th July, 1926.
Sir,
•/ith rej.erence to your despatch ho. 2 of the
2uti, April last regarding your office expenditure and
the condition of the consular premises at Ahwaz, I am
directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to inform
you that the Lords Commissioners of Kis Majesty’s treasury
have sanctioned the assignment to your post of an office
allowance at the rate of sixty one thousand and ninety krans
per annum, with effect from the 1st instant, subject to
review in a year's time. Their Lordships have expressed
the hope that it will then be found possible to reduce the
clerical staff now employed which appears to them to be
large having regard to the req uiremen ts of other consular
posts in Persia*
2. The allowance assigned is made up as follows:-
hr ans.
Salaries and wages 51,120
krans
first Indian Clerk 16 ,400
Second Indian Clerk 10,600
1 ir st Hunshi 8 ,400
Second Huns hi 8 ,400
Parras h 1,800
2 Parr ashes . 3,120
high Guard 1,200
Sweeper 4 ? 200
Lighting and Tans 6,500
Conv eyanc
Sun d r y exp en s e .2,000
Uniforms y
61,090
3 * * •
• 4• I).Gybeon-Monypenny, Esq.,
His Majesty's Consul,
hwa z.
mmme*
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This part contains correspondence, memorandum, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers discussion between British officials regarding affairs at the Ahwaz Consulate, Arabistan [Khuzestan].
Related matters of discussion include the following: the appointment of Captain Eardley Garforth Bryan Peel as Consul at Ahwaz, his annual leave, and the covering of his position by Reginald Gybbon-Monypenny; judicial powers in Arabistan and the appointment of a Judicial Assistant under the Persian Coast and Islands Orders-in-Council; the financial accounts of the Consulate; details of staff at the Consulate; salaries and wages; lighting and fans; conveyance; sundry expenses; uniforms; a change in the procedure for the submission of the accounts of the Ahwaz Consular Escort.
Also included is a salary report, with details of prices of necessities, covering the years 1925 and 1929.
The principal correspondents are: Foreign Secretary for the Government in India; Under-Secretary of State for India; Foreign Office; Sir Robert Henry Clive, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. to Persia [Iran]; Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; British Legation, Tehran.
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