NETHERLANDS INDIA
1303
In a great inany places private persons can be admitted into the military hospitals, while in the large towns general hospitals are maintained for poor natives and Chinese, and other hospitals for infectious diseases, Asylums for the insane are maintained at Buitenzorg and Lawang.
TRADE, NAVIGATION
Riouw, Bengkalis, Singaradja (Bali), and Sabang are free ports. The other ports are open for either 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, Soerabaja, Padang, Siboga, Baros, Singkel, Menado, Gorontalo, Ternate, Amboina Neira (Banda) and Macassar
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The value of imports in 1906 was in Java and Madoera 141,501,029 guilders
In the other islands
Total...
71,382,621 "}
212,863,650
The value of exports in 1906 was from Java and Madoera... 192,187,252 guilders
and from the other islands
Total...
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116,592,644
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308,779,896
The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1906, of 2,494 ships, of which 190 were steamers, with a tonnage of 392,497 cubic metres.
In 1906 there arrived from abroad
4,167 steamers
47 European sailing vessels... 1,8.0 native sailing vessels
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tonnage 8,844,811 cubic metres
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74,440 243 729
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9,162,980
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tonnage
8,389,581 cubic metres
17
112.942
Total... 6,034 vessels with a tonnage of and in the same year departed
4,00% steamers
43 European sailing vessels... 1,786 native sailing vessels
5.837
241.967
8,744,490 "
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, the West and East coast of Sumatra, Acheen (except the Isle of Way), Bencoolen, Lampongs, Palembang, Banka, Billiton, S. E. Borneo, W. Borneo, E. Coast of Sumatra, Indragiri, Lombok, Menado the Residencies Amboina, Ternate and Timor, and in the Government of Celebes, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency, the isle of Bali and in the Assistant Residency of S. New Guinea. 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 of quantity, for instance, hides 2 per cent., birds' nests 6 per cent., damar, benzoin, rattan 5 per cent. (S. E. Borneo & per cent.) of the value, tin f.3.50 for 100 kilogramines. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosene oil (f.2.50 per hectoliter), on matches when each stick has only one head f.9.70 per gross boxes each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (f.965 per gross boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom), when each stick has two heads f.1.40 per gross boxes, each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (f.0.10 per gross boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom) aud on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo,
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 42 ocean-steamers plying across the whole Archipelago, and 4 wheelboats for the inland trade. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
PUBLIC WORKS
On the 1st June 1907 there were 2,172 kilometres of railway in Java and 302 kilo- metres in Sumatra; 1,962 kilometres of tramway in Java and Madoera and 481 kilometres
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