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CHAPTER I.

ADMINISTRATION REPORT FOR BUSHIRE AND HINTERLAND
FOR THE YEAR 1937.

SECTION 1.
Personnel.—The undermentioned officers held the following appointments
during the year under report:—
Political Resident and Consul-General.—The Honourable Lieut.-Colonel
Sir Trcnchard Fowle, K.C.I.E., C.B.E., from 1st January to the 17th August
and from 23rd November to the end of the year.
Mr. 0. K. Caroe, C.I.E., from 18th August to 22nd November.
Secretary and Consul.—Major C. C. L. Ryan from 1st January to 15th
April.
Captain A. C. Galloway from 16th April to 1st November.
Captain T. Hickinbotham, from 2nd November to the end of the year.
Vice-Consul, Bushire.—Mr. F. H. Todd, from 1st January to 25th May.
Mr. W. H. Young, from 26th May to 17th August.
Mr. T. R. Shaw, from 19th August to the end of the year.
Under Secretary to the Political Resident.—Mr. J. Croning, M.B.E., from
1st January to 30th June.
Captain J. R. Cotton from 1st July to the end of the year.
Residency Surgeon.—Lieut.-Colonel J. J. Rooney, I.M.S., from 1st January
to 26th June and from 27th September to the end of the year.
Dr. R. Easey, from 27th June to 26th September.
Assistant Surgeon.—Dr. R. Easey throughout the year.
Confidential Assistant.—Mr. N. Lester, from 1st January to 30th June.
Mr. J. Croning from 1st July to the end of the year.
Registrar and Treasury Officer.—Mr. S. R. Aiyer, from 1st January to
25th April.
Mr. E. A. Tanner, from 26th April to the end of the year.
Assistant Registrar.—Mr. S. R. Aiyer, from 1st January to 30th April.
Mr. Maqbul Husain Khan, from 1st May to the end of the year.
Assistant Engineer.—Mr. Fatahali Shaikh, from 1st January to 1st May.
Mr. Saved Ghulam Murteza from 2nd May to the end of the year.

SECTION 2.
A.—FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES.
Nil.
His Majesty’s Consul-General continued to look after Norwegian interests.

B.—VISITORS.
1. On the 25th March His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah, the Crown Prince,
and suite arrived here by land from Khorramshahr. His Imperial Majesty
was received according to a prearranged programme, and left the following
day for Shiraz en route for Tehran. While in Bushire, His Imperial Majesty
seems chiefly to have concerned himself with the decrease in the population of
Bushire and the bringing of sweet water to Bushiro from the Ab-i-Shapur.
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