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PADANG-MACASSAR

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WINKELMAN & Co.'s HANDEL MAats-

CHAPPY, Exporters

D. Tengbergen, director

K. P. Schuitmaker, do.

Agencies

Landbouw My. Moeara Laboe Klapper Cultuur My. Toja Lawa

Tweede Ned. Ind. Zee en Brand-

assurantie My.

WEHRY & Co., GEO., Importers

W. Weinberg, manager

CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS

Hellfach & Co.

Padangsche Apotheek

N.V. West-Sumatra Apotheek

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Koun Chan

Tan Djoe Sien

Toko Toyo

STEAMSHIP AGENCIES

GEBROEDERS VETH

Agencies

Ocean Steamship Co.

Nederl. Stoomv. My. "Oceaan" China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Cunard Steamship Co., Ld.

HMY. GUENTZEL & SCHUMACHER

Agency

Deutsch Australische Dampfsch. Ges.

INTERNATIONALE CREDIET & HANDELS

VERG. "ROTTERDAM'

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Agencies

Stoomvaart-My. "Nederland " Rotterdamsche Lloyd

Java-China-Japan Lyn.

Java-Pacific Line

Holland-America Line

Java-Bengal Line

KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ

L. Vernède, manager

STORES

Boon Leewens, hardware

City Magazine, A. Jesinowsky, genl. stores Hellfach & Co., chemists and druggists Pupke, photographic & ophthalmological

supplies

Sumatra-Bode, booksellers and printers Toko Orient, tailors and outfitters Handelmij "De Vlyt"

Padangsch Warenhuis " Tokra," general

stores

De Volharding, printers

MACASSAR

Macassar, the capital of Celebes and Dependencies, is situated 119° 24' E. longitude and 5° 8' S. latitude. The population numbered in 1927 about 52,536, of whom 3,499 were Europeans, 37,944 natives and 11,093 foreign Orientals. These figures do not include the floating population of native coolies working in the docks,

As the principal centre of trade in the north-eastern part of the Archipelago, the place has great importance as a transit port. There is an old wharf 510 metres long (the Wilhelminakade), with custom-houses and godowns for general use and a new concrete quay about 1,400 metres in length (the Julianakade), where the steamship companies have their own waterfront, godowns and offices. The northern end of the waterfront is connected by a highway, several kilometres long, with the business quarters and warehouses. A further extension of the harbour is planned. A breakwater 2,700 metres long protects the liarbour from rough seas. Macassar has been closed as a free port since August, 1906. The town is nicely built. A fine thoroughfare, lined with tamarind trees, traverses the principal part, where the Government House and other public buildings are situated, and leads on both sides to large grass-covered squares— the Koningsplein and Kerkplein. A business centre consists of Passar Street. Wilhelminakade and Julianakade. The pleasantest living quarters are Heerenweg and Hospitaalweg, where houses with colonnades give the impression of a town in southern Europe. Around the European settlement the natives have made their villages. The surrounding country is low and marshy, covered with rice-fields and kampongs. The