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The gross earnings during the year 1927 were (in millions of guilders):-State railways in Java, 64.5 (59.7 in 1926); State tramways in Java, 3.3 (2.9 in 1926); State railways in Sumatra 4.5 (4.2 in 1926); State tramways in Sumatra, 6.5 (6.2 in 1926).

Private railways in Java, 11.1 (10 in 1926); Private tramways in Java, 27.7 (26 in 1926); in Sumatra Private railways and tramways, 9.9 (9 in 1926); and in Celebes State tramways 0.11 (0.15 in 1926).

On the 1st January, 1927, the Government telegraph land lines extended over 13,960 kilometres, the Government telegraph cables over 12,262 kilometres, together 26,222 kilometres. The Government telephone aerial lines extended over 25,552 kilometres, the Government telephone cables over 1,356 kilometres. The number of Post and Telegraph stations was 716 for Java and Madoera and 325 for the other islands. The number of Government telephone exchanges was 308, with 39,355 subscribers. The balance of revenue and expenditure of the Post and Telegraph service during the year 1927 showed a deficit of f. 583,279 (a profit of f. 159,472 in 1926); on the Government telephones it showed a profit of f. 455,397 (f. 445,325 in 1926).

PRINCIPAL HARBOURS

Island of Java

Tandjong Priok-The old harbour of Batavia, which is situated on the north of the Tji Liwoeng serves only for prahus and lighters. In the year 1877 new harbour works were constructed for ocean going vessels at Tandjong Priok, 9 kilometres eastward from the old harbour. Those works consist of an outer harbour comprising a water area of about 1,400,000 sq. metres, formed by two moles of dumped stone built out into the sea and having a length of 1,700 metres each. The harbour gives accommodation for mooring on buoys, with an area of about 850,000 square metres for ships with a draught of 9 metres and is in open connection with three inner harbour basins. The first inner harbour basin is 1,100 metres long and 185 metres wide. Along the western side seven large storage godowns have been built, on a quay of 1,000 metres length. Along the eastern side is a quay of 125 metres length with one godown; the rest being provided with screw pile jetties, with a total length of nearly 300 metres which serve for coal, tin and salt. The quays give accommodation to ships with a draught of 8 metres. The second inner basin wide 150 metres has a length of 1,000 metres and is on both sides provided with a quay wall of a length of 1,000 metres. Six large godowns are erected on the western side and two godowns and one open shed on the eastern side. The quay walls of the second basin give accommodation to ships with a draught of 9 (about 1,700 metres) and for the rest of 9.50 metres. The third inner basin, is in course of construction; the work has for some years been suspended owing to the general depression, but now a continuation of the work is planned. In the land-tongue, broad 300 metres, between the first and second inner harbour basin a canal for lighters with a draught of 2.20 metres has been made. In the land-tongue on the west side of the first inner basin are two harbours for lighters with a total area of 24,000 square metres, where also joins a canal for lighters leading to the old harbour and the town of Batavia. In the northern part of this land-tongue is another small basin. A large part of this basin and the land adjoining it is let to the Tandjong Priok Drydock Company, which installed repairing yards, a 8,000 and 4,000 tons floating dock and a patent slip with 2,000 tons lifting power. Eastward from the third harbour are situated two oil-etablishments, viz.: one of the B.P.M. (Royal Dutch) and one of the Socony. They connect with the sea by canals and by pipe-lines, and also with the oil-wharf at the end of the second harbour so that liquid may be obtained at different quays as well as at the wharf. A harbour for fishermen's boats (area 200,000 square metres) is situated east of the third basin. The originally low-lying marshy land surrounding the harbour has been reclaimed. The harbour is equipped with 36 electric- cranes with a lifting capacity of 3.5 to 10 tons, a floating motor-crane with a lifting capacity of 75 tons and a floating derrick of 15 tons. Floating bunker cranes and electric coal transporters have been installed by the Nederlandsch Indische Steenkolen Handel Maatschappij. Every point of any importance is connected with the railway- system of the harbour. At the end of 1926 altogether a sum of about Fls. 36,000,000 had been devoted to the construction of the Tandjong Priok harbour, apart from the costs of the railway connections to Batavia.

Soerabaja.-The harbour of Soerabaja orginally consisted only of the river Kali Mas and its boards. This river has been abroaded and is now used as a harbour for lighters to which purpose quays are built on both sides. On the mouth, a land-tongue