Notes of conversation with Mr. Haji Mubaamad Hamazi:
May 5th, 1926.
Mr. Haji Mahammad Namazi, the second son of Haji
Muhammad Hasan Namazi of Hongkong (and a highly educated
young man, whose English is perfect and knowledge of European
business and legal matters evidently deep) olled on me
today to co salt me regarding a claim which hie firm in
Hongkong have againet a Chinese buyer of opium. Mr. Huji
Muhammed Namasi has, I understand, been away from Hongkong
for more than a year, travelling in Europe, whence he arrived
in Shiraz a few months ago: his ather recently left
Shiras for India en route to Hongkong, and kr. Haji Muhoamad
is temporarily remaining here, for family reasons, it is
stated.
difficulties.
Hie claim appears to me to be bristling with legal
In 1924, when he was still in Hongkong and
the Ordinance ag inst transactions in opium,hɛd not yet
been promulgated in that Colony, a certain Chinamen of
Swetow, who had ona business in that port under a name not
hie own, und & business in Shanghai under his Brother'a
name, signed a contract with r. Namazi jor the purchase
and delivery at Bushire of a quantity of chests of opium.
The contract stipulated for deposit of part of the price.
and payment of the rest at Bushire on shipment. The ship-
The S.S. "Tai-tak" (2) see Residency Diery No. 99 of 1925
sailing under the Portuguese flag arrived at Bushire, (Mr.
Bamazi has since given the date se May 1924, saying that
the present is the third voyage of the ship to Bushire) but
the Chinees party did not fulfil the contract, and eventually
secured the opium, having paid only some 60,000 dollars (sino@
changed to 20,000 by telegram from Hongkong) leaving 290,000
dollars owing, and still owing today.
The amazi firm in Hongkong were unable to secure
payme
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