MAKASSAR
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As the principal centre of trade in the north-castern part of the Archipelago, the place has great importance as a transit port. There is an old wharf 510 metres long (the Wilhelminakade), with custom-houses and godowns for general use and a new concrete quay about 1,400 metres in length (the Julianakade), where the steamship companies have their own waterfront, godowns and offices. The northern end of the waterfront is connected by a highway, several kilometres long, with the business quarters and warehouses. A fifth extension of the harbour is planned. A breakwater 2,700 metres long protects the harbour from rough seas. Makassar has been closed as a free port since August, 1906. The town is nicely built. A fine thoroughfare, lined with tamarind trees, traverses the principal part, where the Government House and other public buildings are situated, and leads on both sides to large grass-covered squares- the Koningsplein and Kerkplein. A business centre consists of Passar Street, Wilhelminakade and Julianakade. The pleasantest living quarters are Heernenweg and Hospitaalweg, where houses with colonnades give the impression of a town in southern Europe. Around the European settlement the natives have made their villages. The surrounding country is low and marshy, covered with rice-fields and kampongs. The mountains, with the Peak of Bonthain in the distance, afford a fine spectacle, especially in the evening, when they are not covered by the fogs that rise from the plains. Beautiful sunsets are to be seen every night from the portmaster landing-stage. The city of Makassar is administered by a Municipal Council with a Burgomaster as president. The Council has 17 members (10 of European origin, 5 Natives of Makas- sar, and 2 Chinese). Technical affairs, grounds and the public sanitary service are managed, under the supervision of the Municipal Council, by an Engineer Director of Municipal public works (Ingenieur-Directeur Gemeentewerken). The municipal gas- plant is managed by a Director (Directeur der Gemeente-Gasfabriek) under the supervision of the Gasworks Committee, nominated by the Municipal Council. The electric lighting plant is in the hands of the Ned. Indische Gas-Maatschappy.
The port (Government property) has been constructed at a cost of about twelve million guilders (£1,000,000) and is administered by a Harbour Board (Commissie van bijstand) with the Engineer Port-Director (Directeur der Haven) as President, under the supervision of the Department of Public Works at Batavia. Marine and shipping affairs are managed in collaboration with the portmaster and pilots by an administra- tion named "Haven-beheer."
Makassar is connected by a double telegraph cable with Soerabaja (Singapore, Br. India, e.s.o.), and by a single cable with Balikpapan (east coast of Borneo) and Menado (north-east peninsula of Celebes), and has connection, also, with China, Japan and the Pacific Coast of the U.S.A.
A wireless telephone plant with Soerabaja is in operation.
The State Railways and Tramways under construction in south-west Celebes are administered by an Engineer Chief of Construction at Makassar, where there are workshops and offices under his direction. The first railway was opened on the 1st July, 1922 (Makassar-Takalar), an important step for the development of the interior of the island Celebes.
B. J. A. Sacijes
ACCOUNTANT
APOTHECARIES AND CHEMISTS
Rathkamp & Co.
Najoan Bros.
BANK AGENCIES
International Banking Corporation Agents-Schmid & Jeandel, Ld.
Javasche Bank
Ned. Handel Maatschappij
DIRECTORY
Ned. Ind. Escompto Maatschappij Ned. Ind. Handelsbank
Chartered Bank of Ind., Aus. & C.
Michael Stephens & Co., Ld., agents
BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS
C. van Nieuwenhuizen
J. Paulus
J. Rutgers
A. W. Scholtens
A. H. Pet
J. J. K. de Wit
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