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(!) Social.
(c) Cccjuunlcatlons and transport.
(0 Freight.—Freights ruling (luring the year (t) Standard cf living.
umlur report wore as l'oiiows
Nu change.
(1) To Bombay.
(c) Dry date* in bags . F.«. 2/I per bag. (it) Employment.
[l) Dry date* in caaos . No »L'jir.rut went forward. There is no unemployment at present. During
(c) Wot da Ur in baga . Ra. 2C 8 por ton of 20 Cwt. f}io su;aiacT able bodied p-T.sons leave Muscat and
(ij Wot dotes in cr.ita . Fa. 2f,g per ton of 40 Cft. Mutrai* for work in the date gardens on the Bati-
(e) Salted fish in bundle Ra. 3.5 por bundle. nah.
(/; Tora. granatca in ct*t« F.*. 2/4 per «rat«. There is steady employment for fit men on the
(r) Central cargo . . No aLpmont went forward. South Coast at Ma.drah ar.d lias A1 lladd.
(II) Public Health,
(2) To Karachi.
No change.
(c) Dry dates in bags . Be. 2 por bag.
(*■} Dry dttta in caaos . No shipment went forward. (tv) Municipality.
(c* t\ it dans in baga . P.e. 25 3 pw ton of JO Cwt.
(c; Wot data in easel . Rs. 25.5 por ton of 40 cft. No change.
(r; Sallod fifb in bundled. So ibipment wont forward.
(ft Pomcgran&tot in crultt No shipment went forward.
(■;) Gem raJ cargo . . No shipment wont forward.

(3) To Colombo. A. C. CALLOWAY,
(c) to (d) ar.d (/) and (y) . No shipment went forward. Political Age/U, Mu teat.
(') Salted fish in bundles . Ra. 70 por ton of 50 Cwt.
upto tth Supt. 1&42.
Rs. p^r ton of 20 Cwt.
from 10th S-.pt. 1*42 to
31st hLirch, l'J43.
(4) To London.
(c)\o (d) . So riupment wont forward.
(tt) Shipping.

The principal steamslip lice which called at
M: s.cat and Matrah duiiig the year under report
was the British India Steam Navigation Company
Limited.
59 steamers in all aggregating 45,190 tons en­
tered and cleared these ports during the year
ending 31st March, 1943. All of these steamers
were under the British Flag.
(tii) Boadfl.
No change,
(ir) Transport
ffo change.