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MACASSAR

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 Heeren weg 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 mountains, with the Peak of Bonthain in the distance, afford a fine spectacle, especially in the evening, when they are not covered by the fogs that rise from the plains. Beautiful sunsets are to be seen every night from the Harbourmaster's landing-stage.

The city of Macassar is administered by a Municipal Council with a Burgomaster as president. The Council has 17 members (10 of European origin, 5 Natives of Macas- sar, and 2 Chinese). Technical affairs, grounds and the public sanitary service are managed, under the supervision of the Municipal Council, by an Engineer Director of Municipal public works (Ingenieur-Directeur Gemeentewerken). The municipal gas plant is managed by a Director (Directeur der Gemeente-Gasfabriek) under the supervision of the Gasworks Committee, nominated by the Municipal Council. The electric lighting plant is in the hands of the Ned. Indische Gas-Maatschappy.

The harbour (Government property) has been constructed at a cost of about twelve million guilders (£1,000,000) and is administered by a Harbour Board (Commissie van Bijstand) with the Engineer Harbour-Director (Directeur der Haven) as President, under the supervision of the Departinent of Public Works at Batavia. Marine and shipping affairs are managed in collaboration with the Harbourmaster and pilots by an administration named "Haven beheer," (i.e., Harbour-management).

Macassar is connected by a double telegraph cable with Sourabaya (Singapore, Br. India, e.s.o.), and by a single cable with Balikpapan (east coast of Borneo) and Menado north-east peninsula of Celebes), and has consequently connection, also, with China, Japan, Australia and the Pacific Coast of the U.S.A.

A wireless telephone plant with Sourabaya is in operation.

The first State tramway was opened on the 1st July, 1922 (Macassar-Takalar), and has been closed at the end of the month of July, 1930.

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DIRECTORY

APOTHECARIES AND CHEMISTS

Najoan Bros.

Rathkamp & Co.

BANK AGENCIES

Chartered Bank of Ind., Aus. & China Michael Stephens & Co., Ld., agents International Banking Corporation Schmid & Jeandel, Ld., agents Javasche Bank

Ned. Handel Maatschappij Ned. Ind. Escompto Maatschappij Ned. Ind. Handelsbank

BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS

J. van Hoeve

J. Kreemen

N. H. Leepel

A. H. Pet

M. R. Rinkel

A. W. Scholtens

H. J. van der Zee

BROKER

A. Vunderink

BUILDING CONTRACTORS

H. de Munnik

GAS COMPANY

Ned. Ind. Gas Maatschappij (Electrical

Department)

IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS

Borneo-Sumatra Handel. My.

Catz Java Trading Co., Ld.

Handels Vereeniging "Oost-Indië"

W. R. Groskamp & Co.

Jacobson v. d. Bergh

Ledeboer & Co., W. B.

Makassar Produce Co., Ld.

Manders Seemann & Co.'s Handel Maat-

schappij, Ld.

Michael Stephens & Co., Ld.