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NETHERLANDS INDIA
The Educational Department sustains a great many schools for Europeans and natives. At Batavia, Samarang, and Soerabaja are schools for higher education; Batavia and Soerabaja have also a school for mechanical engineers, etc. There are, further, 140 Government schools and 29 private schools in Java and 40 Govern- ment schools and one private school in the other islands, having on the 31st December, 1904, 18,341 pupils, among whom were 3,083 native children. Five colleges are devoted to the instruction of native schoolmasters, to the instruction of sons of native officials (at Batavia), to the education of native physicians, while 650 Government vernacular schools and 1,098 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 141,000 pupils. The greater number of these private schools are managed by missionaries. In 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 1904 was in Java and Madoera
In the other islands
Total...
118,791,411 guilders
65,539,658 >>
184,331,069 ""
The value of exports in 1904 was from Java and Madoera... 171,635,275 guilders
and from the other islands
Total...
96,983,846
268,619,121
>>
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1904, of 2,177 ships, of which 181 were steamers, with a tonnage of 340,361 cubic metres.
In 1904 there arrived from abroad
4,089 steamers
93 European sailing vessels... 2,069 native sailing vessels
Total... 6,251 vessels with a tonnage of
and in the same year departed
tonnage
7,550,945 cubic metres
"
129,470
""
...
366,802
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8,047,217 ""
4,315 steamers
tonnage
95 European sailing vessels... 2,186 native sailing vessels
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3)
7,228,320 cubic metres
138,094 381,897
>>
6,596
7,748,311 ""
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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.2.5, per hectoliter), on matches when each stick has only one head f.070 per gross boxes
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