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The Educational Department sustains a great many schools for Europeans and natives.
At Batavia, Samarang and Soerabaja are schools for higher education. Batavia and Soerabaja have also a school for mechanical engineers, and one for telegraph operators and postal officials, etc.; and Batavia one for craftsmen. There are, further, 190 Government schools. 71 public and 17 private colleges are devoted to the instruction of native schoolmasters, seven to the instruction of sons of native officials, and, at Batavia and Soerabaja one to the education of native physicians, and one to the educa- tion of native magistrates, while 1,252 Government vernacular schools and 2,476 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 400,000 pupils. The greater number of these private schools are managed by missionaries. In Samarang is a private European school for mechanical engineers. Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja have each a technical school for natives. In Buitenzorg there is an agricultural school for Europeans and natives and a veterinary school for natives.
In a great many 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 and NAVIGATION
Riouw, Bengkalis, Sabang and Merauke are free ports. The other ports are open for either general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Godowns 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
The value of imports in 1913 was in Java and Madoera
In the other islands
Total...
325,664,186 guilders 139,3.0,434
464,964,620
The value of exports in 1913 was from Java and Madoera... 351,706,051 guilders
and from the other islands
...
326,028,444
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Total...
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677,734,495
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands-India, fishing boats, vessels not exceeding 75 cubic metres nett and river-trade ships not included, consisted in December, 1912, of 5,198 ships and vessels, of which 204 were steamers, with a total tonnage of 470,471 cubic metres.
In 1913 there arrived from abroad :-
6,253 steamers
2,664 sailing vessels
22 barges
...
Total... 8,939 vessels with a tonnage of...
and in the same year there departed
6,983 steamers
tonnage 14,279,690 cubic metres
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542 937 69,481
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14,892,108
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tonnage 14,79 4,495 cubic metres
2,540 sailing vessels
45 barges
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...
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527,039
141,972
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9,568
15,463,506 17
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madura, the Government Sumatra's West-coast, the Residencies Tapanoeli, Benkoelen, Lampong Districts, Palembang and Banka and Dependencies, the assistant-Residency Billiton, the Residency Djambi, the Division Indragiri of the Residency Riouw and Dependencies, and also in the District Kateman, with Danei now forming part of the Division Karimoen, the Residency Sumatra's East-coast, for as much as it forms part of the customs' sphere, the Government Atjeh and Dependencies (Island We not included), the Residencies Western-Division and Southern and Eastern Division of Borneo, the Government Celebes and Dependencies, and in the Residencies Menado, Ternate and Dependencies, Amboina, Timor and Dependencies and Baliand Lombok, but not in the islands of the Riouw Residency and the Assistant-Residency S. N. 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