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Bcrvicc was at first experienced A law passed by The most noteworthy increases are given below
the Majlis prohibiting the export of specie entirely
held up the working of the Money Order Service 1922-23 1023-21
until the law was amended in June 1923. The
Postal service also suffered from inadequate financing £ £
arrangements; at the close of 1923, some 7 tons Tyre* and Coven for Care, Cycle*. 4.42G
etc. ....
of parcels were lying in the Hush ire Post Office Coal and Charcoal 2,750 47.15.1
waiting to be taken upeountry. This congestion Rite. Hulked 30,250 C23312
was due to the refusal of the Contractor (whose pay Edible Flour 3,612 11.751
81,COO
122,>25
was many months in arrears!) to handle them. SugixinCulxL 100.SOO 380,^ SC
A fair standard of efficiency Ins, however fine© Spice--* - 52«*. 13,» 3!»
boon reached which further experience will, it is £etr-'1 in tin\, • , 2,600 11,702
01,130
hoped, unp ove. i>urc l)ycd or prjnlc,i . 387,370 158.207
475,2 VJ
Cotton Clothing nnd Trouserings 11.12*1
British Firms. Tissue of natural eilk 3,412 14,230
.. Tiisuie of cotton containing l«-s»
Messrs. II. C. Dixon <fc Co., Lid., (Head Office at th.-un 10% of fiilk . 203 4.C24
Manchester) went into voluntary liquidation in the Telephones and Telegraph* 1,112 G.i <,-1
893
course ol the year. ' ! 1.01G 2 ,c.yj
4.«»30
Iron, etc., in bare 10,013
The State of the market. Rope** . . 4,810 19,332
Leather .... c.oio 11.732
Though the figures for Imports and Exports (in Potteries of all lands 2,718 lO.b'CJ
Tables Nos. l-“ A ” and 1 “ B indicate a general Motor Care ... 2,930 8,0.3
improvement in trade, business has been severely
handicapped by the tightness of money. This is It 5s interesting to observe that the value of no;
due largely to the harmful system of monopolies imported has returned almost to the same figure at
which prevails in Persia, and to the fact that the ^ 1&21-22 after a fall of £30,250 in 1922-23. Wheat
Persian Government still continacs its embargo on an(j Barley have, however, remained low, though
the export of grain, lambskins, silver, etc. Large flour shows an increase of nearly £8,000.
importers, British and others, are hampered by the The large increase in the quantity of sugars iin-
fact that the lower classes, particularly villagers, ported is no indication of any improvement in tfc-;
have no money until the opium-buyers commence market, as the demand is not commensurate with
purchasing their crops. Moreover as the result of the supplv; the result is that large quantities an
a good harvest, villagers were unable to realise their collected at trade centres such as Shiraz and Jsfa-
u5ual prices for wheat, and, owing to the embargo without any immediate prospect of further dii­
on the export of grain, were actually worse off than tribution.
if it had been a bad year. (For full details of imports see Tables Nos. 1 *‘.V
»
2‘.‘A” and 3“ A ” below).
Volume of Trade.
The year has produced an increase of £1,606,073 Exports,
in the total foreign trade of Bushire, the figure for „ ,
1922-23 being £2,462,777 and that for 1923-24, £4,068, Once *&in Opium preponderates over all otb<
850. Of the Utter amount £2,011,772 are imports exports. In 1922-23 Opium to the value of
and £2,057,078 are exports, representing an increase wa8 exported ; in 1923-24 the value increase ( .
of £628,775 and £977,298 on the imports and exports £>82.093) to the remarkable Cjgure of £1.246,4-3.
respectively of 1922-23. It will be observed that Other interesting increases and decreases are
the adverse baUnce recorded in Ust year’s trade below:—
report has been more than equalised and that ex­
ports actually show a surplus over imports of £46,306. 1922-23 1923-24
£ £
Imposts. Almond*, etc 02,250 54,970
The year 1923-24 is marked by a considerable Dried Raisins 12,247 1,399
2.15«
65
increase in almost every commodity imported, the Seeled fifh . . . , : 70,850 55,01$
Gun Tregacantb
one noticeable exception being Indigo (natural) OtSicr Gum 13.087 27,073
which fell from £15,400 in 1922-23 to £9 in 1923-24; Cotton, Raw 8,195 36.99$
43,775
45,559
but this is more than compensated for by a large Woollen Carpet*, Aniline 70,000 114,001
increase in the volume of Indigo (synthetic) from Woollen Carpet* non-aniline . 7,90* 127
,
Laankflkin* .
£11,339 in 1922-23 to £32,290 in 19-23,24, Totecco. . , 58,610 84,55*