IOR/R/15/2/1428

The first part of the file contains correspondence, notices and telegrams regarding various subjects:

• arrangements for the dispatch of mail and for the despatch of parcels and gifts to the United Kingdom during 1944 and 1945;
• restrictions on dispatch of Christmas cards and parcels for prisoners of war in Germany; postcard service to Greece and Belgium, telegraph communications with France; export of jewellery;
• revision of rates of air mail fees, delays of post despatch at Cairo, Palestine, Karachi.

The second part of the file contains letters on investigations into parcels missing from the Bahrain Post Office in 1948-1950, containing goods and banknotes. The file contains two copies of a 1948 judgment from the Bahrain Court, in Arabic (folios 209-217).

The third part of the file contains correspondence regarding money order services between banks and Post Offices, within the Persian Gulf and with India and Pakistan.

The principal correspondents are: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC); Gray, Mackenzie & Co; Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO); Menashi Ebrahim Cohen & Sons; Petroleum Development Limited; the British Bank of Iran and the Middle East; Lloyds Bank, Karachi; the Eastern Bank Limited; Kuwait Oil Company; the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Inspector of the State Police in Bahrain; the India Office in London; the British Embassy at Tehran; the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs, Sind and Baluchistan Circle, at Karachi; the Postmaster at Cairo; the Sub-postmaster at Bahrain; and various individuals.