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the islands near Bengkalis to Singapore. About 3,000 coolies are employed in this trade The production of paddy, though considerable, falls short of the demand by many thousand bags, which are mostly imported from the Straits Settlements. Kerosene oil is exported from Langkat to the Straits Settlements, British India. Hongkong, Siam and China. This article is of importance for that district, and is still more promising for the future. Almost all necessaries of life have to be imported, and a brisk trade between Java, the Straits Settlements and the East Coast is the consequence. Medan (Deli), the residence of the highest civil and military officials, is a pleasant little town, laid out in modern style, and the streets fitted up with electric light. A splendid architectural Government House has been built for the Resident in the new quarter of Polonia. In the town three banking corporations-the Javabank, the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China-have their branches. There are two very good Hotels, a Club, à Race-club, numerous houses of business, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Malay, Bombay and Kling shops, etc. The port of Belawan Deli, on the Belawan River, is in communication with Medan by railway, the lines of which extend a long distance up country and the North giving also communication via Tandjoeng Poera with Pangkalan Brandan. Other important ports are those of Pangkalan Brandan,Tandjong Balei, Bengkalis, Bagan Api Api and Siak. The population of this Residency amounted in 1905 to 2,667 Europeans, 99,233- Chinese, 89 Arabs, 15,487 other Orientals, and 450,940 natives; total 568,416.
DIRECTORY
AMSTERDAMSCHE
MAATSCHAPPIJ
VAN
LEVENSVERZ
Agent--R. Ennema
AUTOMOBIELHANDEL VAN MARLE & Co.,
LD., Medan
Directors-H. B. van Marle, C. de
Coningh, E. C. van Marle
BARMER EXPORT GESELLSCHAFT, Medan
W. Wittern
J. Kosterich, D.C.M.
CHONG LEE, General Oilman's Store, Import, Export and Commi-sion Agent -Teleph. 232; Tel. Add: Chonglee; Medan, Deli
Proprietor Tjong Jong Hian Manager-Tjong A Fie
Signs per pro.-Tjong Khoon Leong Cashier-Tjong Hiong Tjan Bookkeeper-Lee Pak Sin Chinese Clerk-Lee Pat Yin Malay Clerk-Maamoen
Assistants-Toh Boon Bee, Then Ken Con, Kam Peng Lay, Tan Boen Tjoan, Lian Khoi Tjen, Khor Gim Long
Storekeeper-Lauw Chek Heng
DE JAVASCHE BANK
Medan Agency
L. W. von Suchtelen, agent L. G. Wiemans, substitute agent
L. Termijteten, C. Reigers, clerks
Tandjong Poera Agency
B. Ledeboer, agent
I
Tandjony Balei Agency
F. H. R. Delacheux, agent
Bengkalis Agency
E Cjonggrijp, agent
DELI SPOORWEG MAATSCHAPPIJ
Railway Co.), Medan, Deli
(Deli
General Manager-W. H. M. Schadee Chief Auditor-J. F. v. Gulik Supt. Loco. Dept. J. van Hardingen Supt. Ways and Works--L. L. Polis Traffic Manager-J. Negriju
DE SUMATRA POST, Daily Newspaper
J. Hallermann, proprietor and manag. Ant. J. Lievegoed, editor
J. Veersema, asst. do.
EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA, AND CHINA TELEGRAPH Co., LD., Medan, Deli
Superintendent J. T. Mussell Supervisor-T. C. M. West Operator-A. Goodsir
Do.
- E. P. Cotter
GOLDENBERG & Co., M., General Merchants
-Medan, Deli
Owen M. Goldenberg, Medan Proxy-H. Keitel, Penang
Bookkeeper-H. Goldenberg, Penang Bookkeeper and Correspt.-J. C. E.
de Force
Assistant--M. Kosiner
Do. -H. Zeitlin
HALLERMANN, J., Printer, Bookbinder,
Bookseller and Stationer- Medan, Deli
Proprietor-J. Hallermann Proxy-A. Vetter
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