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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 and one for telegraph operators and postal officials. There are, further, 160 Government schools (among which are Dutch-Chinese schools) and 32 private schools in Java, and 51 Government schools (7 Dutch-Chinese schools) and 2 private schools in the other islands, having on the 31st December, 1910, 24,514 pupils, among whom were 3,463 children of natives and 3,525 children of Eastern strangers. Six public and fourteen private colleges are devoted to the instruction of native schoolmasters, seven 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 1,031 Government vernacular schools and 2,106 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 300,000 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 handicrafu. Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja have each a technical school for natives. In Buitenzorg there is an agricultural school for Europeans and natives and a veterinary school for 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 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 1910 was in Java and Madoera 219,284,533 guilders
In the other islands
Total...
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95,673,820
314,958,353
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The value of exports in 1910 was from Java and Madoera... 258,736,510 guilders
and from the other islands
Total...
153,958,757
412,695,260
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands-India consisted in December, 1910, of 12,605 ships and vessels, of which 274 were steamers, with a total tonnage of 619,581 cubic metres.
In 1910 there arrived from abroad :-
6,492 steamers
1,876 native sailing vessels
96 European sailing vessels...
Total... 8,464 vessels with a tonnage of and in the same year there departed
6,514 steamers
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tonnage 11,762,751 cubic metres
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237.161 144,136
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12,144,048
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tonnage
13,053,285 cubic metres
232.958
150,630
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1,788 native sailing vessels
97 European sailing vessels...
8,399
13,436,873
Import duties are imposed in Java and Madura, the Government Sumatra's West-coast, 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 Kateman, with Danei now forming part of the Division Karimoen, the Residency Sumatra's East-coast, for as much as it forms part of the customs' Sphere, the Government Atjeh and Dependencies, (Island Wě not included) the Residencies Western-Division and Southern and Eastern Division of Borneo the Government Celebes and Dependencies, and in the Residencies Menado, Ternate and Dependencies, Amboina, Timor and Dependencies and Baliand Lombok, but not in the islands of the Riouw Residency and the Assistant-Residency 8. N. Guinea. 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
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