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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.; and Batavia one for craftsmen. There are, further, 152 Government schools (among which are 6- Dutch-Chinese schools) and 31 private schools in Java, and 48 Government schools (5 Dutch-Chinese schools) and 2 private schools in the other islands, having on the 31st December, 1909, 27,458 pupils, among whom were 3,662 children of natives and 2,560 children of Eastern strangers. Six public and sixteen private colleges are devoted to the instruction of native schoolmasters, four to the instruction of sons of native officials, and, at Batavia one to the education of native physicians, and one to the education of native magistrates while 866 Government vernacular schools and 2,921 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 240,000 pupils. The greater number of these private schools are managed by mis- sionaries. In Soerabaja and Samarang are private European schools for mechanical engineers and handicraft. Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja have each a technical school for natives. In Buitenzorg there 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. Asylumns for the insane are maintained at Buitenzorg and Lawang.
TRADE AND NAVIGATION
Riouw, Bengkalis, and Sabang are free ports. The other ports are open for either general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Godowns 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
The value of imports in 1909 was in Java and Madoera
In the other islands
Total...
176,933,021 guilders
83,109,297 >>
260,042,318
The value of exports in 1909 was from Jaya and Madoera ... 289,117,171 guilders
and from the other islands
• Total...
142,582,785
431,699,956
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands-India consisted in December, 1908, of 12,474 ships and vessels, of which 255 were steamers, with a total tonnage of 632,844 cubie
metres.
In 1909 there arrived from abroad :-
5,827 steamers
2,006 native sailing vessels
65 European sailing vessels...
Total... 7,898 vessels with a tonnage and in the same year there departed
6.007 steamers
of
2,068 native sailing vessels
53 European sailing vessels...
8,128
tonnage 10,265,5 9 cubic metres
287 913 >> 142,361
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10,695,783
>>
tonnage 10,593,236 cubic metres
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285,316
110,383
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10,988,935
Import duties are imposed in Java and Madura, the Government Sumatra's Westcoast, the Residencies Tapanoeli, Benkoelen, Lampong Districts, Palembang and Banka and Dependencies, the assistent-Residency Billiton, the Residency Djambi, the Division Indragiri of the Residency Riouw and Dependencies, and also in the District East-coast, for as much as it forms part of the customs' Sphere, the Division Great- Atjeh (Island Wè not included) of the Government Atjeh and. Dependencies, and in the and Southern and Eastern Division of Borneo and the Distrist Kota Waringin, Pagatan and Koesan, Tanah Boemboe, Pasir, Koetei, Goenoeng Taboer, Sambalioeng and Boeloen- Menido, Ternate and Dependencies, Amboina, Timor and Dependencies and Bali and gan, belonging thereto the Government Celebes and Dependencies, and in the Residencies Lombok, but nos in the islands of the Riouw Residency and the Assistant-Residency
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