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tho extend'd harvesting operations d. •. £
PI MS* '' of 1U11 : the Urge number Kgji cwt about , 0 eaoK.
Co.l of Mcmr and Qj- m<?n required for wheat Fowl# I 1 1 to 1 6
lining* cleaning machines by cx- M u'.ton for goat’s flejh) 0 3J to 0 ij per IK
firms during the rest of the year: build- 0 14 |«or 7* lb*.
r'r, .erratum* in the town : tho growing number F.’oar (Indian),
‘ s ,U calling at Buabiro which requires Bu- loc.il o| d
colies to work cargo at Mohasnmerah and
„'f ,j,; and the exodus of large numbers of the Bread (Persian) , 0 9 por 7} lb*.
Hour'n ; chss made labour terribly expensive-- Cljr-'oal (for cooking
and heating) . 5 3 to 7 10 por 124 lb*.
Fire-wood . 2 7 to 3 4 ditto.
Kran per diora= *• d.
Tea . 6 3 to 8 3 per 7* lbs,
lowers on shore HCk 11 14 per man of 7J Iba.
(0»t . » “09 Rica (the ofsontiol
Coo"' •**< on hoard . i; (with food) = 0 CJ and food. Persian food) . 0 10 to 1 2 ditto.
Tl'SSO’B .
Masons . 3-5 = 1 1 to Ir. 10d.
Carpen’ers . . 3-1 = 1 l to Is. Cd. Two hundred steamships with a total tonnage of
319/231 tons entered the port
Shipping. during March 1911-12,
Neither in the quality of, nor hours of work
_:i these last two c’asies be compared with their as against I'-O with a total tonnage of 201*035
.•■VI tjns in 1910-11. 190 steamships cleared the port
fclbws in Europe, but. they are much more fre­
quently required at every house than in Europe, with a tot.il tonnage of 313,322 tons as compared
owing to the nature of construction. with i 79 vessels and 251,700 tons in 1910-11.
. _ Rriti-h shipping increased from 1G5 vessels ar.d
Tue supply of cool.es for v<sse:s is lwcly to .>,V;S toai‘to vessels and tons 271,114.
prove a scuous pnbletn or s lPi/np companies The number of British steamships bringing cargo
and agents, and unless tee litter Had a remedy ^ ^ UnJlcd Kir./,dom was°3* a8
themselves cv.ua illy the Government autbo- ;JG -n i010-ll, and the number taking
nt:cs must interfere. ! j c lr?0 d;rPct lo tlie United Kingdom 29 as against
The Arab of the Tigris delta is a lazy and 1-1 in 1910-11.
pjir labourer, incipiMe o; giving quick despatch The following British lines are interested in
to steimers, and compires very unfavourably the shipping trade of the Gnir, and despatched
with the Persian. For this reason it has been either their own, or chartered ships:—
ibe custom for miny years for all vessels, with
the cargo to be di*eb irg.-"d and loaded at Basrah, Vcssls la
to t ike on bo ml a number of Persian 1 .bourers 1911-12.
at Bushire, and utilize them at Mohaminorah and
Hi-rdi. But with the dearth of labour at present Arg’•'-Algerian S. S. Corapanr, Lirai'ed
(5800)
.
prevalent in Bushire and .a yearly increasing . 25
numb -r of v**s els passing up t> B srah, not only Ba<-kna!l Steamship Liue\ Limit-;i 10
bis the cost of th-* labour inore sod, bat other West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Com­
dilR.-ult'cs arise For example, coolie-misters pany ................................................... 9
tike to engaging cich other’s coolies, and thus 41 e-sis. Andrew Weir and Company and 17
other Chartered Steamers ...
provoke fracas, while a 1 ,rge number of never-do-
w.rlls are cngijjod, who make the voyage with British India Steam Navigation Com-
panv, Limitod
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tbc dclibcnte intent of pilfering from every Arab Steamship Lines, Limited .
pa kage that they can. 10
Bo mb a v and Persia Steamship Naviga­
If Shipping Companies at Basrah will not be tion Company, Limited . 10
able to in ike lor d Arab 1 ibour suffice them, and
engage Persian*, then they will either have In addition 13 German vessels belonging to or
b go to B ind it Abbas and Lingah Tor coolies, for the riamburg-Amerika line called at this port
a« well as Bushin*, or coolie-misters at Bushire on the outward voyage : 12 on the homeward
must b* prevented from engaging local labour voyage : and r. Russian steamers of the Russian
*t Bu-hire, and made to get it from Ka7erun Company of Shipping and Commerce on the out­
or Shiraz. This measure is rapidly becoming ward voyage and G on the homeward voyage.
essential for the well-being of the local population The number of independent chartered steamer*
°f Bu-hire and the cheapening of labour in also shows a tendency to increi«e, and with the
particular, and will certainly be carried into effect extension of trade on the Tigris and the develop­
More long.
ment* projected in that district it is not unlikely
Side-by-side with the rise In rates of labour that other Companies will make their appearance.
the highest co-t of living is affecting nil local A Dutch Service of steamers from Java to the
,nb*bitant8. Wages for boy*, employed in do- Gulf is in contemplation. The Arab Steamship
j00 tic work, even for tho-e leist paid, are never line with its head-office in Bombay has made
"p tlnn Cl per mensem, and generally approach rapid progress and now has 5 ships in the trade
f £1 }• OiP.ce messengers and servants which are carrying considerable quantities of
fonudcrably higher. Female servants are not cargo.
^ploycl except in Persian families, and even the Not for many years pa*t bid such he »w ex-
°*t modest, household requires two servants and poit shipping from Budiire to the United King-,
Water-carrier to fetch fresh water from the dun taken place ; more than 13,500 English ton*
* *11*.
of cargo were shipped.