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inner harbour is the railway terminus; here is another small harbour basin, which originally served 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, a 4,000-ton floating drydock and a patent slip with 2,000 tons lifting power. A second floating dry-dock with a capacity of 8,000 tons will be completed in 1923. 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. 21,000,000 has been devoted to the construction 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 ex- tended, a railway constructed behind the coaling depots, and the low-lying marshy 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 a quayage of 1,000 metres length, giving accommodation at low tide to vessels with a draught of 9 metres. On the western quay of this basin 6 large storage godowns have been built. These works were finished in 1918 at a cost of Fls. 9,500,000. A third inner basin, with a depth of 12 metres at low tide, eastward of the second basin, is in course of construction. Additional warehouses, also, have been built, 33 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 executed, including the removal and extension of the railway terminus. Liquid fuel can be obtained from the newly-built petroleum wharf. Floating bunker cranes and electric transporters have been procured by the N. I.. Steenkolen Handel-Maatschappij, and two harbours for lighters have been made on the eastern side of the canal to Batavia, having an area of 24,000 square metres.

Cheribon. The harbour, consisting of two basins and a harbour canal for Custom purposes, lias a total water area of 87,000 square metres. An average depth of fairway of 3 metres below low tide is maintained by one dredger. A quay length of 700 metres is available for lighters, which carry out the loading and discharging of vessels anchoring in the well-protected road. The wharves are provided with cranes and sheds.

Tegal.--The harbour with its single basin has a total water area of 69,000- square metres, including the harbour canal. A length of quay of 800 metres is available for discharging lighters. The wharves are provided with cranes and sheds. The export of sugar from here is very important.

Semarang. When the old harbour works of the year 1878 proved to be insufficient, a new harbour scheme was approved. The spacious lighter harbour with two basins for Customs purposes, and a small harbour for fishing vessels, are practically finished and in full working order, as well as the newly-built sheds on the wharves. The total water area is 18 hectares. The length of quay wall available for lighters is 4,000 metres. At the end of 1922 a total of 24 loading cranes were in service, 20 of which are electrically driven by the harbour's own electric installation. The harbour area is linked up with the existing railway system. Plans for building a harbour for deep-sea going vessels are in full preparation.

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 cost about Fls. 16,000,000. A pier has been built since in the sea from the mouth of the Kalt 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. In 1916 a new extension was commenced on the western side of the harbour consisting of 430 metres of quay. In 1918 it was decided to lengthen this quay southwards by 490 metres. This work was finished in 1922, and is used as a coal wharf for ships with a draught of 10 metres. Behind the front pier the harbour basin is accessible for ships of 9 metres draught for a space of 250 metres; 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 de- voted to the accommodation and working of three drydocks of 1,400, 3,500 and 14,000