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BATAVIA AND WELTEVREDEN SOURABAYA

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE Co. OF CANADA-

Cable Ad: Sunbeam

Branch Manager-Stanley Price

TELS & Co's. HANDEL MIJ, N.V.L.E., Importers of Wines, Provisions, Household Supplies, Metals and Textile Goods-Cable Ad: Letels; Codes Bentley's, Western Union and Private

TIEDEMAN AND, VAN KERCHEM, Export- ers of Coffee and Tea-Cable Ad: Sterling; Codes: Bentley's, A.B.C. 5th and 6th and Mercuur

UNITED STATES RUBBER EXPORT CO.,

VISSER & Co., BOEKHANDEL, Importers. of Paper, Stationery and Office: Appliances Cable Aid: Visboek; Codes A.B.C. 5th and 6th edns.

W. J. Th. Gerreisen, director

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WALL & BOOM, Weltevreden, Importers of Provisions, Building Materials and Textile Goods Cable Ad: Waalco; Codes: A.B.C. 5th and 6th and Bentley's

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WEHRY & Co., GEO., General, Import- ers and Estate Managers-Head Office Batavia; Cable Ad: Wehry, Codes: A.B.C. 5th and 6th, Bent-- ley's, Mosse, and Private

LTD., Batavia, Importers of Tyres...WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY OF ASIA, and Rubber Goods-Cable Ad: Rub- export; Codes: Bentley's, General and Private

VAN HEUSDEN EN MESS, Commission

Agents

Chef-W. van Heusden

VELODROME N.V., Importers of Auto- mobiles and Motor Trucks-Cable Ad: Velodrome; Codes: A.B.C. 5th; Bentley's, General and Acme

Incoporated in U.S.A.-P.O. Box Cable Ad: 52, Batavia-Centruin; Wecophones, Singapore; Codes: A.B.C. 5th Edn., Bentley's and Western Electric Private Code

WILDING & Co., General Importers (Wholesale Only), Lubricating Oils, Pharmaceutical Oils, Provisions.. Hardware, Sound Films Head Office: Batavia Offices also at Semarang and Sourabaya

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SOURABAYA

Sourabaya is the capital of the "Provincie " Oost-Java, in the island of Java, and is advantageously situated for commercial purposes on the Madura Strait, directly opposite the island of Madura. The second largest city on the island, it is the principal centre of Java's commercial activities. It is also the naval headquarters of the Netherlands India. Among its principal buildings are a fine Government house, a naval arsenal, several shipbuilding yards and a naval flying-base.

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Sourabaya's position is naturally protected and it lies on the low alluvial delta of the Kali Mas river which empties into the Madura strait. This strait is the narrow division between the island of Java and that of Madura. Sourabaya, therefore, is the outlet in a trade way for exceptionally rich districts. It has been pointed out else- where that Java is naturally divided into three producing districts, each of which, while yielding much the same products, yields a different grade. This is due to climate as well as to soil. Much of the soil of Java is of volcanio origin and therefore- exceedingly rich in deposits of a nutritive value. The eastern portion of the island, of which Sourabaya is the seaport proper, contains about 2,000 square miles of agricultural land, most of which has been under cultivation for many years. About 71 per cent. of the population is agricultural. Among the foreigners the Chinese play an important part. In 1935 there were 27,205 Europeans, 47,972 foreign Orientals, 265,872 natives; total 314,049.