مجموعة ٣٦/٢٩ "كرمان: المباني القنصلية" [و‎‎٣‎٥] (٢١٦/٧١)

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From
The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India,
The Under Secretary of State for India,
Political Department,
India Office, London.
Dated Hew Delhi,the 2January 1930.
Sir,
1 . Ho.lll-M, dated the 14th November 1929.
2. Ho.l20-M, dated the 5th December 1929.
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I am directed to address you on the subject of water
supply for tne Kerman Consulate garden, vide correspondence
forwarded with Foreign
Secretary^ weekly letters
cited in the margin.
2. The Consular building at Kerman was purchased in 1928
under the sanction of the Secretary of State for India conveyed
in his telegram Ho.1022, dated the 17th April 1928* Water is at
present rented for 280 hours per year for a sum of Tumans 280,
the equivalent of about Rs.770/- per annum, - vide Secretary of
State’s telegram Ho.1137, dated the 27th April 1928, approving
of the expenditure. This water-supply is rented from a local
merchant who is himself the mortgagee of 440 hours* water-supply
from Sardar Husret, C.B.E., the former owner of the Consulate
building.
3. His Majesty’s Consul for Kerman and Persian Baluchistan
has now suggested that Government should take up the mortgage of
the 440 hours water-supply from Sardar Husret for a sum of
Tumans 4500 for a period of 4 years. At the present market rate,
this will vary from Rs.10,000 to 11,250 approximately. Interest
at 6% on this amounts only to Rs.600 to Rs.675 per annum which is
less than the present rent, while at the same time the Consulate
will be assured of a considerably larger supply of water which is