مجموعة ٢٨/٢٩: "مشهد: مخصصات المكتب والمباني القنصلية" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٠] (٣٤٣/٢٨١)

cold in winter. The accomodation would however be similar
to th t in the existing houses.
14. If therefore this proposal is accepted the Jonsul
General and his staff will be accommodated in buildings that
are practically the same as those that they occupy at present
but the Consulate instead of being in the middle- of squalid,
dirty, and unhealthy surroundings will be right outside the
town, in a large garden and with no other buildings near it.
1 /breover in selecting a site I would be careful to choose one
on a side where the town is not likely to expand so that as
far as can be foreseen there would be no likelihood of a
similar situation recurring 30 or 40 years hence; wnile
outside the town a good supply of drinking water would be
easily obt inable.
I know hr. llalik personally; I believe the firm
to be a reliable one, and they have contracts and property
in India. He is anxious to extend and develop his interests
in He shed, and would I am sure do his best to satisfy the
local British Authorities; and finally the present site and
buildii gs would not be handed over to him until he had built
the new ones, and they had been approved. There is therefore
no risk to Government involved.
15. To sum up, my proposals are tint an agreement
should be entered into with Messrs. IT.A.Halik under which
they would undertake
(i) to buy a garden selected by the Consul General with
an area not smaller than the present Consulate
compound
(ii) to construct on it buildings similar to the
existing Consulate buildings, the designs to be
approved by 'che Consul General.
When these buildings had been constructed and approved
by the Consul General, Government would undertake to hand over
to Messrs. Malik the existing Consulate site and buildings as
they stand. ITo expenditure would be involved, and no money