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NETHERLANDS-INDIA
The Netherlands Navy in these Colonies numbers 261 officers and 1,682 European and 1,453 native non-commissioned officers and sailors, and consists of 31 men-of-war. There is, besides, the Colonial Navy, consisting of 27 smaller ships with 200 Europeans .and 977 natives, employed for civil service duties.
PUBLIC WORSHIP AND EDUCATION
The Protestant clergymen are appointed by the Queen; they are 43 in number. The Roman Catholic priests are appointed by the Pope and recognized by or in the name of the Queen. The Jews have no rabbis and are so few that in no place have they a synagogue. The Government does not interfere with Mahommedan worship, but pilgrims to Mecca require to take out passports. Chinese religion is as free as all other kinds of public worship.
The Educational Department maintains a great many schools for Europeans and natives. At Batavia, Semarang, Soerabaja, Bandoeng and Djokjakarta are schools for higher education. Batavia, Djokjakarta and Soerabaja have also a school for mechan- ical engineers, and one for telegraph operators and postal officials, etc.; and Batavia has one for craftsmen. There are, further, 389 Government schools, and 93 private schools; 24 public and 19 private colleges are devoted to the instruction of native schoolmasters and one for Chinese schoolmasters (at Meester-Cornelis), nine to the instruction of native officials, and at Batavia and Soerabaja one to the education of Indian physicians, and one to the education of native magistrates, while 1,523 Government vernacular schools and 2,422 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 382,485 pupils and 5,487 desa-schools to 377,686 pupils. The greater number of these private schools are managed by missionaries. In Semarang is a
In Semarang is a private European school for mechanical engineers. Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja have each a technical school for natives. In Buitenzorg, Soekabocmi and Malang 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 civil hospitals are maintained, and other hospitals for -infectious diseases. Asylums for the insanc 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. Godowns wherǝ 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
In the other islands in 1918
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396,705,000 guilders 168,048,000
The value of imports in 1918 was in Java and Madoera The value of exports in 1918 was from Java and Madoera... 357,257,000 guilders
and from the other islands in 1918 ... 322,586,000
The mercantile marine of Netherlands-India, fishing boats, vessels not exceeding 73 cubic metres nett and river-trade ships not included, consisted in July, 1917, of 4,818 ships and vessels, of which 189 were steamers, with a total tonnage of 403,594 cubic
metres.
In 1917 there arrived from abroad :-
7,934 steamers 6,003 sailing vessels
40 barges
tonnage 8,886,269 cubic metres
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969,323 112,820
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9,968,412
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Total-13,977 vessels with a tonnage of...
and in the same year there departed
7,078 steamers
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tonnage 8,815,978 cubic metres
4,795 sailing vessels
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34 barges
11,907
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811,332 96,852
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