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it ia due to increase of smuggling. Sugar also state of Fan province undoubtedly helped.*
showed a Inrgo decline—£23,271. Tfasuss of wool export trade a great deal. Rates of mule k;*
also sbowod a considerable decline, this is p«oba- varied between £tl per ton in April and £15 ^
bly due to the prohibitive cost of suoh tusuos now. ton in October.
On the other band the principal increases in Rates for merchandise from Bnahirolo Borin
imports aro matches, ovor £13,000, wood fer was £1-13-0 per ton. Manv of the nnletecrs
building over £8,000, loaf sugar over £36,0(k? using the railway to carry the- merchandise,
drugs and medicines over £11,000, clothing over ther have contracted to transport to SUraz, as f,!
£14,000, Tin lead, rino oto., in Urn over as liorasjun, where it io transferred to nitlcj
£62,000; copper and nickol in bars over £21,000 ; This is a great convenience to the maletccn u
col ton yarns over £77,000 ; Tissues of cotton they can leave their mules at Borasjun instead
over £78,000 ; Tissues not specified over £8,00.0'; having to bring them to Bnrhire and then
Mercery and Haberdashery over £26,000 ; China them back to Borasjun on account of the lack cf
and earthenware over £14,000; Glariwaro over grazing at tbe former place.
£23,000 ; manufactured tobacco over £17,000.
Most of these increases are due to the necessity Exchange.
for making good stocks which could not he
replenished dnring the war. The' increase in The rates of sterling exchange varied fo-
" Tissues of Cotton n appear to be due to increa­ Krans 20’G9 to £1 in March 1920 to Krana 351*
sed price only, as about the usual quantity vras to £1 in Acgnst 1919, while rupee exebtz,-.
imported. • The reason for the large increases in varied from Krans 207*45= El00 in April 1919 ti
Tin, Zinc, etc., and copper is not very «-l*ar unless 292*35 Kran<= il 100 in August 1919.
it is dne to tbe import of electric light and tele­ Tbe average rates were Krano 28'83 = £1, Knu
phone installations. 261-25 =fil00.
The rate at which statistics on this report Lit*
Export. bees calcul ated is Krans 26 to the pound.
The export as mentioned above increased by
£522,506. Of this the increase in exports to India Rainfall.
amounted to almost £283,000 as compared with The rainfall throughout Southern Persia in tbs*
exports of 1918-19. Exports to the United cold, weather of 1919-2 0 was good if rather lit*'
Statesof America increased by nearly £18,000, and resulted in a good harvest in 1920, spoill h
to Japan by over £12,000, to. Hongkong by over maoy parts by locusts. The harvest of 131/
£134,000, and to Bahrein by £38,000. On the was not a good one.
other hand exDoits to Singapore decreas'd by orer
£11,000, to Mesopotamia by over £10,OJO and to The rainfall at Busbire was 1212 inches agti-
Oman by over £12,0.0. nst 3'06 invbes the previous year and an ave.ij:
of 2*42 inches.
The principal increase* in expoits were almonds,
pistachios, et*^ over £19,000, inm Tragacaoth Public healtlu
over £112,009. cotton raw over £14,009, rarpets
0.000, Tobacco unmanufactured over £55,000, There was no epidemic of plague or cholera u!
•kins £12,000. The only considerable decrease Bushire or South Persia during the year, nor
was opium which, though showing an increase on there any appreciable reorudence of influenza c
1918-19, declined by £68,0U0 on the average of epidemio form, though sporadic cases occurred.
the previous two years.
Freight.
Commur(cation with Interior.
The rate for general argo was H30 per 1®
Owing to the presence of British Indiin Troop* Throughout the greater part of the year practii®*:
throughout the year the Bushire-Shiras road was all shipments to London were by tramhipmert f
practioally safe, and motor conroTs went along it India; towards the end of the year some of tb
although parts were unfinished. The Bushire- direct steamers from England recommenced re*
Borasjun Railway was opened for civil traffic rung. The rates for the principal comniodite1
in May 1919, and helps to expedite cargo, though were.
as mentioned above it is too short|to be of very Almond* tsd Pistachios . £7per toarflfret
much use. The safety of the road naturally assis­ Qam trs^scafith # . . £7-5-0 perU* « c*t
,
Carpets .
ted trade. This combined with the improved Ojrua • , * ! £28 pc7 cb*t of lrf ^