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inner harbour is the railway terminus; here is another small harbour basin, which originally serve as a coaling harbour. A short time after the completion of the harbour a large part of this basin and the land adjoining it was apportioned to the Tandjoeng Priok Drydock Company, which opened repairing yards and a 4,000 tons floating drydock there. A canal provides a connection so far as lighter traffic is concerned between the harbour and town of Batavia. Altogether a sum of about Fls. 2,000,000 has been devoted to the constructions of the Tandjoeng Priok harbour, apart from the cost of the railway connections with Batavia. Since the original completion of the work various additional improvements have been effected. The salt. and tin jetty has been extended, a railway constructed behind the coaling depots, and the low-lying marshy land

land surrounding the harbour has been raised. The existing docks being found inadequate, the harbour has been enlarged with a second basin, which on both sides has quayage of 1,000 metres length, giving accommodation to vessels with a draught of 9 metres on the western side of the harbour and of 10 metres on the eastern side. Over 300 metres of the new quay will give 12 metres depth at low tide. Plans for building a third dock for ocean steamers are infull preparation, while dredging is already finished. Additional warehouses, also, have been built, electric cranes have been erected, a floating steam crane with a lifting capacity of 75 tons and a derrick of 15 tons have been secured, and other subsidiary works ex- ecuted, including the removal and extension of the railway terminus. Floating bunker cranes have been procured by the N. I. Steenkolen Handel-maatschappij, and two lighter harbours have been made on the eastern side of the canal to Batavia, which are in connection with this canal, and have an area of 24,000 square nietres.

Semarang. When the old harbour works of the year 1878 proved to be insufficient a new harbour scheme was approved and is now in course of construction. This scheme comprises a spacious lighter harbour with two basins for Customs purposes, and a small harbour for fishing vessels, the new harbour works being accessible from the harbour canal, which forms the connection with the sea. The projected harbour has a total water area of 8 hectares and provides sufficient depth of water for heavily-laden lighters. The harbour arca is amply provided with approach ways and open spaces, and linked up with the existing railway system. Plans for building a harbour for deep-sea going vessels are in full preparation.

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Soerabaja.-Plans were drawn up several years ago for providing Soerabaja with wharves capable of accommodating ocean-going vessels, so that these could obtain direct .communication with the shore. This work, consisting of a widening of the Kali Mas, was carried out expeditiously at a cost altogether of Fls. 1,350,000. In the meantime new harbour works were planned and adopted to

to cost about Fls. 16,000,000. A new pier has been built in the sea from the mouth of the Kali Mas in a westerly direction, roughly parallel with the coast line. Its front coincides approximately with the natural channel and has a depth of 9 metres at lowest water. The pier has a length on the sea side of 1,200 metres and a breadth of 200 metres, and is capable of berthing ships with a draught of up to 9 metres. A harbour basin has been formed approximately 900 metres square, or 81 hectares in area. harbour basin will be rendered accessible for ships of 9 metres draught for a space of 250 metres behind the pier; the remaining portion is provisionally intended for the use of lighters, which can moor alongside a quay on the south side of the basin. In the deep part of the harbour a sufficient area of water is devoted to the accommodation and working of two drydocks of 3,500 and 14,000 tons capacity respectively, with a view to which the depth here is to be increased. There is available 2,360 metres of wharf for ships of 9 metres draught and 370 metres of quay along the lengthened bank of the Kali Mas projecting into the sea for small ocean-going steamers and vessels of lesser draught, while on the south side of the basin which is about 1,050 metres long there is 300 metres of quay-wall for the use of lighters. The harbour equipment includes two floating steam-cranes with a lifting capacity of 25 and 50 tons, respectively. In 1916 a new extension was commenced on the western side of the harbour consisting of 430 metres quay to be used as coal wharf for ships with a draught of 10 metres. This last work will cost about fls. 3,500,000. In 1918 it was decided to lengthen this quay southwards by 490 metres. Preparations are being made for further extensions.

Tjilatjap.-Tjilatjap, the only harbour of importance on the south coast of Java, is situated on a tongue of land, bounded on the East by the Indian Ocean and on the West by the river Donan, in the estuary of which there is sufficient depth of water (7.6 metres at low tide) for large steamers. Owing to the protection provided by the island of Noesa Kembangan, lying off the coast here, this estuary offers a safe anchorage, where the breakers of the Indian Ocean are not felt. There is 520 metres of pier and ships