NETHERLANDS INDIA
TRADE, NAVIGATION
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Riouw, Bengkalis, Macasser, Ternate, Amboina, Kajeli, Banda and Koepang are free ports. The other ports are open either for general trade or only for native, coasting navigation. Entrepôts, where goods can be stored and sold, and from whence they can be exported without payment of import or export duties, are established at Batavia, Cheribon, Semarang, Soerabaia, Padang, Siboga, Baros, Singkel, Menado and Corontalo.
The value of imports in 1899 was in Java and Madoera in the other islands
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Total...
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128,308,507 guilders
63,013,763
191,322,270 19
The value of exports in 1899 was from Java and Madoera... 178,169,034 guilders and from the other islands
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Total...
72,754,224
250,923,258
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1899, of 2,231 ships, of which 104, were steamers, with a tonnage of 279,957 cubic metres.
In 1899 there arrived from abroad
3,661 steamers
389 European sailing vessels... 1,406 native sailing vessels
Total... 5,456 vessels with a tonnage of
and in the same year departed
tonnage 4,628,545 cubic metres
239,401 "> 122,846
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3,708 steamers
tonnage
4,722,644 cubic metres
336 European sailing vessels... 1,419 native sailing vessels
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268,421 122,975
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5,463
5,114,040
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, the West and East coast of Sumatra, Acheen (excepted the isle of Way), Bencoolen, Lampongs, Palembang, Banka, Billiton, S. E. Borneo, W. Borneo, E. Coast of Sumatra, Indragiri, Lombok and Menado, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency, in the Government of Celebes and in the Residencies Amboina, Ternate, except Banggaai and Timor. The import duty is fixed ad valorem or according to the weight or the dimensions, most of the goods being separately mentioned in the tariff. Most of the metals, machinery, raw materials, as lime and wood, horses and cattle, and articles of art and science are free of import duty. Export duty is only paid on a few articles according to value or quantity, for instance, hides 2 per cent., birds'nests 6 per cent. of the value, coffee f.1, tin f.3:50, indigo f.10 for 100 kilogrammes. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosine oil (f.2.50 per hectoliter), on matches f.0.70 per gross boxes and on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo.
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 31 steamers plying across the whole Archipelago. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
PUBLIC WORKS
There are now 1,881 kilometres of railway in Java and 3125 kilometres in Sumatra ; and 1380 kilometres of tramway in Java. The telegraphs extend over 6,833'88 kilometres, the telegraph cables over 1,64950, together 8,483 38 kilometres. The net receipts of the Post and Telegraph services amounted to f.620,58440; the number of stations was 348 for Java and Madoera and 96 for the other islands.
DIRECTORY
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BESTUUR VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE
Gouverneur-Generaal-W. Rooseboom
Adjudant van Z. E.-J. J. Staal, Kolonel der Genie, tevens intendant
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der Gouvernements hôtels
-H. de Booij, Luitenant-ter-zee der 2e klasse
Do. -G. L. J. Holle, Eerste luitenant der Artillerie
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