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IOR/L/MIL/17/16/29
- Record Id:
- 040-000799190
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000799157
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001ee
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100038044436.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/29
- Title:
- ‘A report on Cyprus.’
- Scope & Content:
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A booklet, subtitled ‘Based on a tour of this Island carried out by Colonel G [George] Craster, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Indian Army (Retired), with the object of assessing its suitability for settlement by officers of the Indian Army affected by the War Block Scheme’. The report was printed by the Manager of the Government of India Press in New Delhi, 1936. Following a foreword written by Major General Neil Charles Bannatyne, Military Secretary, dated September 1936, the file consists of a number of sections and appendices as follows:
- General remarks
- Social
- Climate and health
- Educational
- Recreational
- Communications and travelling
- Cost of living
- Opportunities for augmenting income (general, citrus growing, citrus districts and cost of land, the Cyprus Palestine Plantation Company, other possible undertakings for the sake of both occupation and profit)
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: estimated cost of purchasing, equipping and planting a citrus grove of 20 donums [dunams]
- Appendix B: Cyprus Palestine Plantation Company, estimate of profits
- Appendix C: Taxation
- Appendix D: Currency and banks
- Appendix E: Proposal regarding the formation of a company in Cyprus
The file contains a map of Cyprus at the rear (f 13).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000788810
037-000799157
038-000799188
040-000799190 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/17 : Military Department Library
IOR/L/MIL/17/16 : Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28-29 : Two reports on Cyprus
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/29 : ‘A report on Cyprus.’ - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/29, f 13 : ‘Cyprus’
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- 032-000256868[0017]/036-000788810[0016]/037-000799157[0004]/038-000799188[0002]/040-000799190
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MIL
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 file (12 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001ee
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1936
- End Date:
- 1936
- Date Range:
- 1936
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 14; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)