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MACASSAR
waterfront is connected by a highway, several kilometres long, with the business quarters and warehouses. A breakwater 2,700 metres long protects the harbour' from rough seas. Macassar 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 busi- ness centre consists of Passar Street, Wilhelminakade and Julianakade. The pleasan- test living quarters are General van Daalen weg and Hospitaal weg, 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 Harbourmaster's landing-stage.
The city of Macassar is administered by a Municipal Council with a Burgomaster as president. The Council has 17 members (10 of European origin, 5 Natives of Macas- 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 harbour (Government property) has been constructed at a cost of about twelve million guilders (£1,300,000) and is administered by a Harbour Board (Commissie van Bijstand) with the Engineer Harbour-Director (Directeur der Haven) as President, under the supervision of the Departinent of Public Works at Batavia. Marine and shipping affairs are managed in collaboration with the Harbourmaster and pilots by an administration named "Haven beheer," (i.e., Harbour-management).
A wireless telephone plant with Sourabaya is in exploitation.
The first State tramway was opened on the 1st July, 1922 (Macassar-Takalar), and has been closed at the end of the month of July, 1930.
BANKS
DIRECTORY
DE JAVASCHE BANK (Head Office: Ba-
tavia) Macassar Agency-Cable Ad: Delegate
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION (Head Office:
(Head Office: Hong Kong; Headquarters for Nether- lands East Indies: Batavia)-Cable Ad: in Pava: Nerbudda
Agents-The Java Bank
NEDERLANDSCHE
HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ (Netherlands Trading Society) Head Office: Amsterdam; Eastern Head Office: Batavia; Macassar Branch, Cable Ad: Trading
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NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE ESCOMPTO MAATSCHAPPIJ (Netherlands India Discount Bank)-Head Office: Ba- tavia: Macassar Branch, Cable Ad: Escompo
NEDERLANDISCH-INDISCHE HANDELSBANK (Netherlands India Commercial Bank)-Head Office: Amsterdam Macassar Branch
BORNEO SUMATRA HANDEL MIJ, Im- porters of Automobiles, Provisions, Cigars and Cigarettes, Iron and Steel, Chemicals and Drugs, Cement, etc.-Cable Ad: Borsumy; Codes: Bentley's, Acme, Voller's and Pri- vate
BOUVY, GEbroeders,
GEBROEDERS, Importers of Automobiles, Bicycles, Wines and Spirits, Metals, and Chemicals and Drugs - Cable Ad: Bintangmas; Codes: A.B.C. 6th Bentley's, Kohl- berg, and Voller's
CATZ JAVA TRADING Co., N.V., Ex- porters of General Produce--Cable Ad: Catzco; Codes: A.B.C. 6th and General