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THE EAST COAST OF SUMATRA

Medan (Dell), the residence of the principal civil and military officials, is a pleasant little town, laid out in modern style, and administered by a Municipality. It is well provided with schools and hospitals and a splendid residence with architectural pre- tensions has been built for the Governor in the new quarter of Polonia. In the town five European banking corporations--the Javabank, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, the Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij, the Nederlandsch- Indische Handelsbank, the Nederlandsch-Indisch Escompto Maatschappij their branches, and there is also one Chinese bank. There are two hotels (Hotel de Boer and Grand Hotel), a Club (Witte Societeit), a Race Club, a Golf Club and numerous houses of business, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Malay, Bombay and Kling shops, etc.

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The port of Belawan Deli, at the mouth on the Belawan River, is in communication with Medan by road and railway, the lines of which extend a long distance up country and the north, giving also communication via Tandjoeng Poera and Pangkalan Brandan with Koeta Radja (Atcheen) and to the south via Tebing Tinggi, with Tandjoeng Balei (Asahan) with Koeta Penang and via Pematang Siantar to the west with Sibolga, Fort de Koek, Padang, Korintji. Improvements and extensious to the road system are being carried out by degrees. Other important ports are those of Pangkalan Brandan, Tandjoeng Poera, Tandjoeng-Balei, Bengkalis, Bagan Api-Api and Laboean Bilik and Pakanbaroe. There are Wireless Stations at Medan, Bengkalis and Bagan Si Api-Api. Brastagi and Prapat, the former nearly 5,000 feet above the sea level and the latter on the shores of the Toba Lake are popular holiday resorts with modern hotels where golf, bathing and riding may be enjoyed. At the last census (1930) the East Coast of Sumatra had a population of 1,673,623, Medan being credited with approximately 75,000.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNOR'S OFFICE-Medan

Governor of the East Coast of Sumatra--

H.E. K. Ezerman

Assistant Resident A. S. L. Spoor

Secretary P. S. J. Abbij

Controller-H. J. de Groot

Adjutant Secretary—A. Neijhoff

Officers of the General Treasury-A. F.

H. P. van Asperen and K. Muns

ADMINISTRATIVE DEPTS. OF THE Govt

GOVT.

OF EAST COAST OF SUMATRA I. Afdeeling Deli en Serdang, (Medan) Assist. Resident-M. van Rhijn Afdeeling Secretary-A. A. Scharff a. Onderafdeeling Beneden Deli (Medan) Controller, Medan-H. D. von Meyenfeldt b. Onderafdeeling Bovan Deli (Arnhemia) Controller-M. Klaasson

C.

Onderafdeeling Serdang (Loeboek

Pakam)

Controller-J. de Ridder

d. Onderafdeeling Padang en Bedagei

(Tebing Tinggi)

Controller-C. Bakker

II. Afdeeling Langkat (Tandjoeng Poera) Assist. Resident-the Assist. Resident of

Deli and Serdang

α.

Onderafdeeling

Beneden Langkat

(Tandjoeng Poera) Directly under the Assistant Resident

Controller (with residence Pangkalan

Brandan) C. Baalbergen

b. Onderafdeeling Boven Langkat (Bindjei) Controller-W. Ph. Coolhaas

III. Afdeeling Asahan, (Tandjoeng Balei) Assistant Resident J. J. J.

J. J. J. van der Hoeven

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Controller-J. W. Burger

a. Onderafdeeling Asahan (Tandjoeng Balei) under the Assist. Resident of the department

b. Onderafdeeling Batoe Bara, (Laboehan

Roekoe)

Controller-G. R. Seinstra

Adj. Chief Clerk-Radja Ismail Machlan c. Onderafdeeling Laboehan Batoe (La-

boehan Bilik)

Controller-H. H. Morison

IV Afdeeling Simeloengoen en de Karolanden, (P. Siantar)

Assist. Resident - F. J. Nieboer