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and erratic.

(c) Cinemas.
A 16m/m projector was supplied early in the year,
and with this bi-weekly shows were given in the local
schools during term-time throughout the year. Trie 35m/m
projector continued to do very useful work both in Bushlre
and in the villages further inland, The projector was

also taken by sea to the port of Gananweh, where a cinema
show had never previously been seen.
A film show was arranged for the members of the
Reading Room Club, once a week throughout the year, except
during Moharram.

(d) Anglo Persian Relief and Reconstruction Fund.
The Anglo-Persian Relief and Reconstruction Fund
continued to do extremely useful work throughout the year.
It supported at the Caravanserai Shakari 85 paupers who
would otherwise have been begging in the streets. A.P.R.

R.F. medicines were dispensed free of charge to large
numbers of sick people in the towns and villages of the
Bushire area, where no medical service is provided either

by the Persian Government or by any private medical oract-
itioner. During the course of 56 expeditions made by the
Mobile Dispensary during the year to villages outside Bushire,
a total of more than 9000 sick were treated.
The balance of the cloth purchased from India by

the local committee of the1 A.P.R.R.F. was distributed per­
sonally by H.fc’s Consul in Borazjan, Ahram, Ga.naweh, Saadabad,
Darwahi and Dehkoneh. A distribution of cloth was also
made at Lingeh. As the poor in this area have been unable

to buy any cloth during the past five years, the free
distribution of cloth through the A.P.R.R.F. has been greatly
welcomed, and our action in helping both-to cure and clothe
the poor has been widely praised*
Ao.