NETHERLANDS INDIA
TRADE, NAVIGATION
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Riouw, Bengkalis, Macasser, Ternate, Amboina, Kajeli, Banda and Koepang are free ports. The other ports are open either for general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Entrepôts, where goods can be stored and sold, and from whence they can be exported without payment of import or export duties, are established at Batavia, Cheribon, Semarang, Soerabaia, Padang, Siboga, Baros, Singkel, Menado and Corontalo. The value of imports in 1900 was in Java and Madoera 133,784,951 guilders in the other islands
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Total...
62,138,571
195,923,522
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The value of exports in 1900 was from Java and Madoera... 184,117,285 guilders and from the other islands
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Total...
74,916,321
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259,033,606
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1900, of 2,385 ships, of which 104, were steamers, with a tonnage of 283,460 cubic metres.
In 1900 there arrived from abroad
3,445 steamers
184 European sailing vessels... 1,940 native sailing vessels
Total... 5,569 vessels with a tonnage of and in the same year departed
tonnage 4,862,051 cubic metres
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171,902 177,802
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5,211,755
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3,497 steamers
tonnage
4,943,943 cubic metres
320 European sailing vessels... 1,910 native sailing vessels
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195,442 182,572
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5,727
5,321,957
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, the West and East coast of Sumatra, Acheen (excepted the isle of Way), Bencoolen, Lampongs, Palembang, Banka, Billiton, S. E. Borneo, W. Borneo, E. Coast of Sumatra, Indragiri, Lombok and Menado, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency, in the Government of Celebes and in the Residencies Amboina, Ternate (except Banggaai) and Timor. The import duty is fixed ad valorem or according to the weight or the dimensions, most of the goods being separately mentioned in the tariff. Most of the metals, machinery, raw materials, as lime and wood, horses and cattle, and articles of art and science are free of import duty. Export duty is only paid on a few articles according to value or quantity, for instance, hides 2 per cent., birds'nests 6 per cent. of the value, coffee f.1, tin f.3:50, indigo f.10 for 100 kilogrammes. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosine oil (f.2.50 per hectoliter), on matches f.070 per gross boxes and on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo.
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 38 steamers plying across the whole Archipelago. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
PUBLIC WORKS
There are now open 1,914 kilometres of railway in Java and 312.5 kilometres in Sumatra; and 1418 kilometres of tramway in Java. The telegraphs extend over 6,941.81 kilometres, the telegraph cables over 1,65104, together 8,592:85 kilometres. The net receipts of the Post and Telegraph services amounted to f.233,559′40 ; the number of stations was 361 for Java and Madoera and 105 for the other islands.
DIRECTORY
BESTUUR VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE
Gouverneur-Generaal-W. Rooseboom
Adjudant van Z. E.—Jhr. L. J. de Villeneuve, Luitenant-Kolonel der Cavalerie
tevens intendant der Gouvernements hôtels
Do. -H. de Booij, Luitenant-ter-zee der 2e klasse
-G. L. J. Holle, Eerste luitenant der Artillerie
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