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15.
il*. BRITISH INTERESTS.
Trade.
Owing to postwar restrictions and lack of skipping
space imports, chiofly of tea, sugar and cheap cotton fabrics,
which usually come from India and^Trucial Coast remained much
lower than in previous years.
The usual exports of Kerman and tribal carpets
were sent to the U.S.A. in small quantities and consignments of
dried fruits, pistachios, and goatskins went to India and the
Arab coast.
General cargo and merchandise landed by Messrs. Gray
Mackenzie & Co. Ltd. amounted to 1062.50 tons and 317.25 tons were
exported. The total number of passengers who arrived by 3.1.
Steamers was 214 and those who left for other ports amounted to 502.

Messrs. Frank Strick & Co. Ltd.
Ships of the Strick Line loaded 6326 tons of red
Gxide and 114 bales of carpets and landed 26,000 bags of sugar
during the year.
A.I.O.C.
Throughout the year, the A.I.O.C. continued to maintain
their depot at Bandrr -Abbas from which source the province is
supplied. They received the following oil products during the year

Tins. Litres. Barrels.
Aviation spitit lC-?63
Petrol 275440 247235
Kerosine 145779 91637
3?.s Oil 73533 293490
Fuel 3-'i 2135 56175
Lubricating Oil 640
Grease 101
.Tith the exception of lubricating cil end grease most
of the above was forwarded to the interior in 921 trucks.
in. porzig:: zttitzsts.

I’o foreign Interests are represented at this port.
17. LOC;.L GOTSSIESffT.
Forwarder. Aqai Eusaln Sep-ehrnia was Farnand sr from 1.4.46 to
14.7.46, Aoai Mohammad Pezhzan officiated from 15.7.46 to 5.11.46
and Aq&i liadhat from 6.11.46 to 31.12.46.
Aqei Sspehrnia is reported to have inis appropriated
a major portion of the municipal tax which was being collected
at the rate of rials 150/- per truck and which was supposed to
be spent for the improvement of the road between the town and Kaiband.
Customs.
________ 4qai -ansur Qsnl* officiated as Director of Customs
from I.4.46 to 16.4.46 and Aqai Ali Khalili was Director of Customs
from 17.3.40 to 31.12.46.
Pilferage and bribery within the Customs was rife
throughout the year, end senior officers in the Department are
reported to have ammacced fortunes of about half a million tomans
each through bribes from merchants and undervaluatIon of their
goods. Pilferage of Government sugar end tea has taken place on a
large scale and other valuable goods have not escaped their
attention.