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NETHERLANDS INDIA

natives and 608 children of Eastern strangers. Five public and ten private colleges are devoted to the instruction of native schoolmasters, four to the instruction of sons of native officials and one (at Batavia), to the education of native physicians, while 710 Government vernacular schools and 1,529 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 195,000 pupils. The greater number of these private schools are managed by missionaries. In Soerabaja and Samarang are private schools for mechanical engineers and handicraft. In Buitenzorg is an agricultural school for Europeans and natives.

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 and Lawang.

TRADE, NAVIGATION

Riouw, Bengkalis, and Sabang 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 Neira (Banda) and Macassar

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The value of imports in 1907 was in Java and Madoera 147,649,321 guilders

In the other islands

73,522,143

Total... ..... 221,171,464

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The value of exports in 1907 was from Java and Madoera... 211,415,126 guilders

and from the other islands

Total...

129,888,454

341,303,580

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The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1906, of 2,494 ships, of which 190 were steamers, with a tonnage of 392,497 cubic metres.

In 1907 there arrived from abroad

4,105 steamers

38 European sailing vessels... 1,804 native sailing vessels

Total... 5,947 vessels with a tonnage of and in the same year departed

4,124 steamers

38 European sailing vessels... 1,746 native sailing vessels

5,908

tonnage 9,545,443 cubic metres

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tonnage

9,604,758 cubic metres

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65,007 256,711

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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, Djambi, Indragiri, Bali and Lombok, Menado the Residencies Amboina, Ternate and Timor, and in the Government of Celebes, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency, and in the Assistant Residency of S.

S. New Guinea. The import duty is fixed ad valorem or according to the weight or the dimensions, most of

of the goods being separately mentioned in the tariff. Most of the metals, machinery, raw materials, as lime and wood, and articles of art and science are free of import duty. Export duty is only paid on a few articles according to value of 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 inland arrack (only in Java and Madoera), on kerosene oil, gasoline and bensine, (f.2.50 per hectoliter), on matches of all kinds when each stick has only one head f.0.70 per gross of boxes each box containing no more than seventy- nine sticks (f.0'05 per gross of boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom), when each stick has two heads f.1.40 per gross of boxes, each box containing no more than seventy-nine sticks (f.0.10 per gross of boxes more for each additional number of five sticks or part therefrom) and on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo.