NETHERLANDS-INDIA
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Batavia and Soerabaja have also a school for mechanical engineers, et: and Batavia one for craftsmen and one for telegraphy operators and postal officials. There are, further, 160 Government schools. 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. 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 1911 was in Java and Madoera
In the other islands
Total...
261.246,778 guilders 110,860,889
372,107,667
The value of exports in 1911 was from Java and Madoera... 327,788,828 guiliers
and from the other islands
Total...
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174,972,876
502,761,704 *9
of 9,700
The mercantile marine of Netherlands-India consisted in December, 1911, ships and vessels, of which 314 were steamers, with a total tonnage of 591,578 cubie metres.
In 1911 there arrived from abroad :-
6,484 steamers.
1,896 native sailing vessels
35 European sailing vessels...
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tonnage 12,866,459 cubic metres
286.397 "
74,460
13,227,316
Total..... 8,415 vessels with a tonnage of and in the same year there departed
6,528 steamers
1,783 native sailing vessels
+4
32 European sailing vessels...
8,343
tonnage 13,108,457 cubic metres
11
"
271,717
69,392
13,449,566
15
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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 assistant-Residency Billiton, the nestach, 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 Bali and Lombok, but not in the islands of the Riouw Residency and the Assistant-Residency S. 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 metals, machinery, and 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. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on inland arrack (only in Java and Madoera), kerosene oil, gasoline and benzine, on matches of all kinds and o
exported from Java to Borneo.
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