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the poor which fluctuated between a total of 140 and 200
dally.
Other activities were the distribution of 900

baskets of dates and 500 suit3 of clothes. 1000 yards
of poplin and a further 1500 yards of khaki drill obtained
through the Government of India were also distributed.
The gifts of cloth were labelled as having been donated

by the Government of India, Hot only Bushire but outlying
places such as Hiat Daud, Gavbandi, Kangan, Daiyir and Lingah
were included in the areas receiving gifts cf clothes and
cloth.
SECTION VI
(a) Cereals.

Owing to partial crop failure in 1943 the
town and district of Bushire depended for cereal supplies
on the realisation of the balance of the contract made by

Fathullah Khan Kiat Daudi referred to in paragraph VI (a)
of the last report and on snail supplementary supplies
sent from ohiraz. Fathullah Khan did not fail to send

in as much wheat and barley as possible though the partial
crop failure made his task difficult and he was obliged to
buy some wheat at black market prices to meet the terms
of his contract. Though shortages sometimes occurred

the cereal supplies of the town were maintained with
considerable success considering the difficulties of
transport and a poor crop.
(b) Che Shabankareh Irrigation Project.

There has been little improvement in the
administration of this project which continues to be hin­

dered by conflicts of local interests and by disputes
between the Engineer in Charge and the brothers Amarullah
Khan and Ali Shabankareh sons of the late Aga Khan
i
Shabankareh.