NETHERLANDS-INDIA
1387
Batavia and Soerabaja one to the education of native physicians, and one to the educa- tion of native magistrates, while 1,169 Government vernacular schools and 2,348 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 300,000 pupils and 4,142 desa-schools to 280,000 pupils. The greater number of these private schools are managed by missionaries. In Samarang is a private European school for mechanical engineers. In Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja have each a technical school for natives. Buitenzorg and Soekaboomi there is an agricultural school for Europeans and natives and in Buitenzorg 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, Sabang and Merauke are free ports. The other ports are open for either general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Gorlowns 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 1914 was in Java and Madoera
In the other islands
Total...
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288,279,605 guilders 124,060,395
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412,340,000 15
The value of exports in 1914 was from Java and Madoera... 354,929,059 guilders
and from the other islands
Total...
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319,167,780
674,096,839
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands-India, fishing boats, vessels not exceeding 71⁄2 cubic metres nett and river-trade ships not included, consisted in December, 1913, of 4,962 ships and vessels, of which 221 were steamers, with a total tonnage of 403,506 cubic metres.
In 1914 there arrived from abroad :-
6,147 steamers
3,531 sailing vessels
32 barges
Total... 9,710 vessels with a tonnage of...
and in the same year there departed
6,591 steamiers
3,131 sailing vessels
46 barges
10,068
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tonnage 13,030,866 cubic metres
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madura, the Residencies Sumatra's West-coast, Tapanoeli, Benkoelen, Lampong Districts, Palembang and Banka and Dependencies, the assistant-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 Government 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 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 or quantity. Transit cargo is free.
An excise is charged on inland arrack (only in Java and Madoera), kerosene oil, gas- oline and benzine, on matches of all kinds and on tobacco exported from Java to Borneo.
Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company, "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 78 ocean-steamers plying across the
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