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THE EAST COAST OF SUMATRA
Other important agricultural produets are given below :—
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Coffee Coeoanuts Oil Palms Gambier...
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Aeres Planted.
Export 1916 K.G.
0.4536 K.G.)
(1 lb. =
(Mainly as eateh-crop)
19,000
9,105
Coffee Copra Gambier
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...
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3.746,934 K.G.
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4,645,645 2,312,618
2,600
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Very important also is the export of fish from Bagan Si Api Api-the second fish export harbour of the world-to Singapore and Java. In 1916 was exported from that plaee 19,072 tons (1,000 K.G.) fish, and 9,897 tons (1,000 K.G) shrimps, trasi, ete. Considerable also is the export of timber from the islands near Bengkalis to Singa- pore. About 3,000 eoolies are employed in this trade. The production of paddy, though considerable, falls short of the demand by many thousand bags, which are mostly imported from the Straits Settlements. Kerosene oil is exported from Langkat to the Straits Settlements, British India, Hongkong, Siam and China. Almost all neees- saries of life have to be imported, and a brisk trade between Java, the Straits Settlements, Europe and the East Coast is the consequence.
Medan (Deli), the residence of the principal civil and military officials, is a pleasant little town, laid out in modern style, and the streets are lit with electrie light. A splendid residence with architectural pretensions has been built for the Governor in the new quarter of Polonia. In the town five
five banking eorporations-the Javabank, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, the Nederlandseh-Indische Handelsbank and the Nederlandsch-Indische Escompto Maatschappij-have their branches. There are two very good hotels (Hotel de Boer and Medan Hotel) a Club (Witte Societeit), a Race-club, numerous houses of business, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Malay, Bombay and Kling shops, ete.
The port of Belawan (Deli) on the Belawan River, is in communication with Medan by road and railway, the lines of which extend a long distance up country and the North, giving also communication via Tandjoeng Poera with Pankalan Brandan and to the South, via Tebing Tinggi with Tandjoeng Balei (Asahan) and Pematang Siantar. Other important ports are those of Pangkalan Brandan, Tandjoeng Poera, Tandjoeng- Balei, Bengkalis, Bagan Api Api and Laboean Bilik.
The population of this Government amounted in 1915 to 5,127 Europeans, 680,291 natives, 131,103 Chinese, 322 Arabs and 13,359 other Orientals; total 830,202 against 568,417 in 1905.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, MEDAN Governor of the East Coast of Sumatra—
H. J. Grijzen
Asst. Resident L. van Kesteren Secretary-V. Obdeijn
Chief Clerks-D. F. van der Heijde, C. E. Willemsen, J. Ch. Ungerer. E. J. En- koroma Coffie, J. Groenendijk Clerks-Raden Aloewi Dhanoe Pamekas, J.
H. Adam, K. Maervos, A. H. Hoijer
ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT EAST COAST OF SUMATRA Asst. Resident-N. J. van den Brandhof Chief Clerk-W. H. Elsborg
Beneden Deli, Medan
Controller (Medan)-J. W. A. F. Zeeman Do. (Laboean Deli)—F. de Ridder Clerk-F. C. Pietersz
Boven Deli, Arnhemia
Controller-H. Sieberg Clerk-H. A. de Lizer
Serdang, Loeboeq Pakam
Controller-J. F. R. Verschoor van Nisse Clerk-Enkoroma Coffie J. F.
Padang en Bedagai, Tebing Tinggi Controller P. J. Ketting Olivier Chief Clerk-N. J. Wattimena Clerk-D. Crawfurd
Langkat, Tandjoeng Poera
Asst. Resident-M. C. Roos van Raadshoven Asst. Controller-A.W.de Haze Winkelman Chief Clerk-A. Neijhoff Clerk-F. B. A. de Veer
Boven Langkat, Bindjei Controller-J. J. Viehoff Chief Clerk-E. H. Simon Clerk-J. C. H. Townsend