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truck assembly organisation In Bushire In 1943, together with
the resultant falling off in demand for labour to handle ships
and lighters resulted in an emigration of labour to Abadan,
Khorrarashahr, Bahrain and other places considerably affecting

the prosperity of the town of Bushire, Trade generally,
already slack, declined further,and a small number of merchants
left for dhiraz and elsewhere to better their position.

(b) The Bushire town area and neighbourhood was
occasionally insecure during the first six months of the year
and insecurity on the Bushire - Shiraz road continued during
the same period but the situation improved over the latter half
of the year. This was popularly attributed to the fact that

the German agents located with the Qashqai tribes had been
handed over.
(c) The drinking water scheme for the town of
Bushire, the inauguration of which v/as recorded in the last

administration report, made some progress during the first
half of the year but v/as left dormant for the summer months
when the engineers in charge went to Tehran to escape the
Bushire heat and to obtain an increase in the budget for the
scheme. At the request of the Governor, the Political

Resident lent his good offices to secure the release of some
1200 sections of iron piping from the army authorities and
these arrived in August, Y/ork commenced shortly afterwards

on laying the section of piping from Bushire town to the
reservoir constructed on a high point of Bushire island near
Undur Bundur. Good progress on this section and on the
digging work at the point of water supply at All Changi had
been made by the end of the year but the whole of the I'ashileh

section between BurJ-i-Uuqan and All Changi remained to be
covered by earthernware piping.
(d) Owing to poor rainfall in the winter of 1943 -

1944 there was again a great shortage of water in the town.
Here again this Consulate General was able to be of assistance