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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 Gemeente werken). 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 Department of Public Works at Batavia. Marine and shipping affairs are managed in collaboration with the Harbourmaster, and pilots are compulsory.
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BANKS
DE JAVASCHE BANK (Head Office Ba- tavia) Macassar Agency Cable Ad: Delegatie
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION (Head Office: Hong- kong; Headquarters for Netherlands East Indies Batavia)Cable Ad: in Netherlands. East Indies: Nerbudda
Agents De Javasche Bank
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ N.V. (Netherlands Trading Society) -Head Office: Amsterdam; Eastern Head Office!
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, Çable Ad: Escompo
NEDERLANDISCH INDISCHE HANDELSBANK N.V.-Head Office: Amsterdam. Macassar Branch (Celebes, D.E.I.)
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-
väte!
CATZ JAVA TRADING Co., N.V., Ex- porters of General Produce--Cable Ad: Catzco; Codes: A.B.C. 6th and General
CELEBES MOTOR COMPANY, Importers of
Mortor Cars and Accessories Head Office Hoogepad 25, Macassar; Cable Ad: Cemoco. Branches at Menado and Gorontalo
A. E. O. Braun, manager
GROSKAMP, W.R., Exporters of Hides and Coffee-Cable Ad: Remelius; Codes: Bentley's A.B.Ç. and Western Union
INTERNATIONALE
CREDIET-EN HANDEL SVEREENIGING "ROTTERDAM," Gen- eral Importers and Exporters Cable Ad: Internatis; Codes: Bentley's A.B.C.. 5th and 6th and Acme
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