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Customs Receipts In the Quit Ports. The average monthly rates of Bank demand
drafts on London and India were, during the II
Gross Customs receipts for the past 4 years past 2 years :—■' !
^re been
London. London. Bombay. Bombay.
1917.
1911-15. 1915-16. 1916-17. 1917-18.
1916-17. 1917-18. 1916-17. 1917-18.
Piorince.
@ 55 @ 60 @40 @30
krann. km ns. km ns. kran*. March 21st-31«t 52* 37* 3-18 262
April . 51 371 363 262
£ £ £ £
May Ml 36} 344 252
:jU« 99,246 115,141 99.895 200,523 June . M| 36} 316 249
lisizr Abbus 28.775 40,547 74,610 112,827 July . 49 31} 330 235
iaUsUn 33.217 61,123 1C3.378 209,223 Auguit. 46} 32} 310 225
September 47} 30} 318 215
Total 103.2G5 216,311 337,883 522.57S October 41 29 293 215
November 39 29} 262 215
This handsome total and all-round increase can Dccc-micr 33* 31} 225 224
:!v be accounted for by general briskness cf
-Je. As British loans to Persia arc secured on January 1918 52} 32} 224 228
j receipts of Southern Customs the result cs
. ^factory: it is believed however that, under February 33} 32 230 225
muratorrira system, the proceeds go to the March 1st-20th 25} 32 246 225
Viian Government at present.
Average for the year 33*12 krans to the £,
2:32*465 „ per Bs. 100.
Exchange
Maximum rates 3S*75 krans to the £ and 270
The rate, which in the preceding year had krans to the Bs. 100 on the 4th April 1917.
._sa from 52 to 35, went as low during the Minimum 28*75 and 210 on the 30th
«under review as 28*75 and recovered to 32 September 1917 and 15th September 1917
■ps to the pound sterling. Bupee exchange respectively.
-from 2C2 to 225 krans per 100 rupees in the Rainfall.
period, 3G5 being regarded as the normal.
The drop in kran exchange is attributed to 1914-15. 1915-16. 1916-17. 1917-18.
vcity of brans in South Persia together with
' jvrmal demand for military and gendarmerie Inches. Inches. Inches.
-poses. Military requirements in the North Inches.
;- already denuded the South of funds. On the March 21st-31st OOO 1*63 0*10 000
-ir hand the collapse of Bussia meant that
‘k which had previously been done with Bussia April . 001 1*28 205 000
done with India, hence the demand for ; November . 3-28 OOO OOO OOO
has increased to a very considerable extent; j
-* has helped to keep the rupee rate fairly ■ December . 1*18 0-20 1-61 2*45
^•y, which otherwise (owing to large kran !
laments against rupee exchange) would have January 043 3*85 4*47 1*39
*j?very low. At the same time the present February 077 105 1*45 Ml
/** the exchange, coinciding as it does with
•trceptional activity in the import trade, is not March lst-20tb . 2-42 074 005 100
-ccraging. ______________ „