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responslble to a variety ol* three different centres.

(c) The elections to the : a.11i3, which tools
place in the autumn, were completed, by .comparison with
many other areas of Persia, very promptly; and produced
the satisfactory result ol* the election by very comfortable
majorities of the candidates v/ho enjoyed the rood-will
of the Residency.
(d) Towards the close of the year, a drinking
water scheme for the town of bushire was inaugurated. This
aims to brinr i:i drinking water from an are? 25 1:ilor:etres
away, by r.eans of pipes, which in places have to run above
the surface of the ‘-'round to avoid’ the effects of* the salt
swamps lying in between the Bushire peninsula and the
mainland. A grant of one million tomafrs from the late
Shah*s estate has been secured by Aqai Safavi, one of the
Ilajlis deputies, to finance the scheme.
’(e) Punds were collected and a church built,
mainly owing to the zeal of the Rev. R.Ir.Sharp. ,the C.LI.3.
missionary in char re at Shiraz. The church *..as consecrated
by the .-it.Rev. .7.J. Thompson,Bishop in Iran on nhe Cth
January 1944 and named the Church of the Goiphany. At
the Persian opening ceremony on the fth January, the
Governor, Imam Juma and all the local officials were
present, a display of friendliness which would be difficult
to duplicate elsewhere in Persia.

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(a) |ri\d. The main road to Tehran /as closer ;*
British .-.r- ;* cr.’crs for a short v>eriod. after t* c fersir.n
Av.-v's defeat az Jemirun at the ha-ds of the tribes, ut' er-
v»ise the road remained open, lorries and cars coin: run
in convoys between faze run and j.niraz duri-v the late
summer and autumn. Petty robberies occurred on the country
roads to the south of Bushires to the north, travel v.as
secure.
(b) Sea. Kail steamers became fewer and fewer
through the year, untiJL 2 months became no unusual inter­
val between padsenrer ships to or from India.- r'ostal
communication was maintained only by use of the n.P.C.C.
turns, ana t-e small packet, the :*.V. Resanp, which has a
circular run inside the Gulf rourhly once a fortnight.
(c) LXr.» The airfield at Jushire was laid out
v/ith three runwavs, two of 1^00 yards -and one of 1200 yards.
In one place the'approaches were cleared by.levelling a
small hill. Arrangements were made for the storage of
petrol in three buildings on the airfield, lent by the
Persian Government.
At- Asalu a strio of 1200 yards was laid out
and *arved. At I.-in-ah, the construction work c.n the aero-
droTe which was in progress under the Garrison ^nyir.eer,
Sharjah, durin*- 1942, was completed.
(d) Tele^ranhic. After an unsatisfactory period
durin* v/hich the Persian Government xiireless station at
3ushire y/as nominally controlled by a member of the An~lo-