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an over-oil length of 2540 metres when completed, A.t
the end of the ye or it hid a service 2 hie length of
13P0 metres (though this hud not os yet been officially
declared as serviceable) one. work was in progress on
the remaining 1160 metres, There were no ground
markings.
(iii) V/ork on the Secondary Runway (width 49 metres} length
2030 metres), including the Fairwe^ther strips on
either side of it, was abandoned.
(iv) The Fairweather strip of natural soil on the 77est side
of the Pri-a-ry Runwuy, though fit for use in dry we a -
ti.er, was obstructed by machinery ana bitumen drums
then being u*ed on the runway.
With the exception of the serviceable length on the
Primary Runway, the rera-» inin* s trips were serviceable only
in dry weather ana aircraft landing on them in damp weahher
woula hove run a grave risk of sinking into the naturally
clayey soil and overturning.

(c) '.tireless .• The Kerman ’.virelecs Station continued to
work it irregular intervals during the yeer. Its programmes
were as followss- o
From January let to rsrch 19th, it coTjnunic atea en
cleir telegrams and teiegrsens from H.i!. Consulate and the
SETTS-Itsniun Cil Company office to Jack cn every day except
Fricoys. From tlarch 20th to larch 23rd, it remained closed.
From larch 24th to November 2nd, it carried out a test
trc.nc.mia'.ion with Js»sk on Fcnduye and Thursdays, and from
Fcvernb-’:r 3rd to the end of the year it carried out daily
co.jjnunicatio.'i .vith Jasic.

IX. SCC’^OIIC*
There were no serious shorties of essential ccrrmodi-
ties duri.i* trie year, uue, no doubt, tc the efforts of the
Co'isulur Liiiiw-on Officer, v.hc was able to buil%* up sufficient
reserves in Government amburs. By the end of February, only
150 tons of groin ren-ined to be collected from "ta'ahude”
taken ir. the previous year in spite of the numerous diffi*
culties end excuses put forward by landlords before deliver­
ing outstuuuiag -mounts, Undertakings during 19<±4 were
successfully obtained, though not unaccompanied by the usual
intrigues on the p*rt of the landlords to ur.derestimste
gruin 4 urpluisea.
By the end of November, when the British Officer
assisting the Director General of Finance left Kerman, the
position was as follow*
Wheat Barley Total
T- 'ahuds taken 4448 tons 2303 tons 6751 tons
Collections 3850 » 2034 « 5884 «
The general situation was at that time considered to
be 4uite satisfactory ana difficulties if any were purely
technics 1, e.g. storage etc.
Issues of Government monopoly gooas were made period­
ically under the cou;on system. Sorly in the year, it was

evident /-