NETHERLANDS INDIA
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schools and 1,004 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 136,783 pupils. The greater number of these private schools are managed by missionaries. In Batavia, Djokjakarta, Soerabaja and Samarang are private schools for mechanical engineers and handicraft.
In a great many places private persons can be admitted into the military hospitals, while in the large towns general hospitals are maintained for poor natives and Chinese and other hospitals for infectious diseases. Asylums for the insane are maintained at Buitenzorg, Soerabaia, and Lawang.
TRADE, NAVIGATION
Riouw, Bengkalis and Macasser are free ports. The other ports are open for either 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, Soerabaja, Padang, Siboga, Baros, Singkel, Menado, Gorontalo, Ternate, Amboina and Neira (Banda).
The value of imports in 1903 was in Java and Madoera ... 117,327,512 guilders
In the other islands
Total...
...
69,733,372
187,060,884
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The value of exports in 1903 was from Java and Madoera... 186,701,934 guilders
and from the other islands
...
Total...
...
87,732,107
274,434,041
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1903, of 2,629 ships, of which 176 were steamers, with a tonnage of 341,445 cubic metres.
In 1903 there arrived from abroad
4,270 steamers
215 European sailing vessels... 2,413 native sailing vessels
Total... 6,898 vessels with a tonnage of
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tonnage
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6,525,873 cubic metres
199,371 392,617
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7,117,861
and in the same year departed
4,219 steamers
tonnage
6,099,902 cubic metres
200 European sailing vessels... 2,426 native sailing vessels
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239,471 409,063
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6,845
6,748,436,,
Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, the West and East coast of Sumatra, Acheen (except the isle of Way), Bencoolen, Lampongs, Palembang, Banka, Billiton, S. E. Borneo, W. Borneo, E. Coast of Sumatra, Indragiri, Lombok, Menado and the Residencies Amboina, Ternate and Timor but not in the islands of the Riouw residency, and in the Government of Celebes. 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., damar, benzoin, rattan 5 per cent. (S. E. Borneo 8 per cent.,) of the value, tin f.3′50 for 100 kilogrammes. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosene oil (f.2.50 per hectoliter), on matches when each stick has only one head f.070 per gross boxes, each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (f.005 per gross boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom), when each stick has two heads f.1.40 per gross boxes, each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (f.0.10 per gross boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom) and on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo.
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 40 steamers plying across the whole Archipelago. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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