PADANG
Padang, the capital of the West Coast of Sumatra, is situated 100 deg. 30 min. 30 sec. E. longitude and 59 min. 30 sec. S. latitude. The population, numbered 51,976 of whom 2,624 (1,313 males, 1,309 female) Europeans, 40,694 (23,084 male, 17,610 female) Natives, 7,212 (3,945 male, 3,529 female) Chinese, 1,456 (753 male, 703 female) other foreign Orientals according to Census, 7th of October, 1930. Padang has a splendid natural harbour, the "Emmahaven," with up-to-date wharfage facilities. The place is an important market for Import and Export articles. The produce of the West Coast, such as coffee, copra, cassia-vera, rattan, gum damar, rubber, hides, nutmegs, mace, cloves, etc., are shipped to the different ports of the world. The beautiful highlands, with the centre Fort de Kock, offer plenty of opportunities for walking and motoring trips amidst most gorgeous scenery. Padang is one of the healthiest places on the Coast, land and sea breezes contributing materially to lower the temperature. Owing to the absence of monsoons no division of the year into a dry and a wet season can be made, the rainfall being more or less equally divided over the whole year. However June and July are considered to be the dry period.
Padang is now linked up with Medan-Deli on the North East coast by an excellent motor road which passes through a great variety of primeval and beautiful scenery. Comfortable hotels and rest houses are distributed along this 850 kilometer length of road, so that the journey is warranted free from hardship.
Within short, Padang will be an aerial port so that tourists will be enabled to enjoy a birds-eye view of this richly verdured tropical island. Padang has two good hotels and a Rotary Club.
Padang and Fort de Kock are each equipped with a golf course. Especially attractive is the one in the cool climate of Fort de Kock, laid out in a romantic miniature sort of Wild West canyon with a rushing stream running through its length about 40 feet below the greater part of the course, and a lovely view, through one end of the canyon, of the volcano "Merapi" about 10 Miles away.
DIRECTORY
MUNICIPALITY
Mayor-Dr. W. M. Ouwerkerk, LL.D. Secretary--Dr. S. Blankstein, LL.D. Treasurer-J. M. van der Wal
Director of Public Works-J. F. Kipper-
man, C.E.
Director of Electric Light and Power
Service B. van der Weerdt Veterinary Surgeon-A. H. P. van der
Put, VET. B.
KAMER VAN KOOPHANDEL EN
NYVERHEID
(Chamber of Commerce and Industries) Chairman-A. Nagel
Vice-President--M. Passer
Members-F. F. Anema and N. F. Spier Secretary-M. F. de Jager
HANDELSVEREENIGING
(Commercial Association) Chairman-J. C. Hazevoet
Members of the Board-N. F. Spier van
Zwicht and H. van Gelder Secretary-W. v. d. Stoel
KAMER VAN KOOPHANDEL EN NIJVERHEID TE PADANG (Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Padang)
President (Vacant) Vice-do. M. Passer
Members-F. F. Anema, N. F. Spier van Levicht. Ch. M. Kamerling and H. W. Jonker
Secretary-W. v. d. Stoel
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