Category: General
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Strange Easterners
There are three groups of people in Indies according to the division of the law: Europeans, Natives, Foreign Easterners. That has not always been the case. The old Government regulations knew only Europeans and Natives and for each group “those who were assimilated to them”. For the Europeans, these were the Japanese (since the beginning…
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The Deli Railway Company
This company has had much to do with the general prosperity of Sumatra, as the facilities offered by it to producers have resulted in a large expansion of the area under cultivation for coffee, rubber, and other tropical products. At the end of 1915 the capital of the company was F. 8,ooo,ooo in paid-up shares…
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Deli Veem, G.H. Slot
NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP DELI VEEM What the Indische Veem and the Batavia Veem are to Java, the Naamlooze Vennootschap Deliveem is to Sumatra. The company was founded in 1913 with a capital of F. 100,00. The head office at ” is installed on the most up- to- date lines and located near the railway, with large…
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The Rhemrev Report
The protector of Chinese on the Straits is negative about the treatment of coolies on the East coast of Sumatra eventually partly moved back in. That meant not in the least that there were no abuses in this regard, any more than this could have been concluded from the reluctant recognition of British side that…
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Luitenant der Chinezen
Oostkust van Sumatra AFDEELING DELI EN SERDANG (MEDAN). Ondorafdoeling Medan Majoor der Chineezen te Medan. Tsiong Jong Jian or Tjong Yong Hian, 23 April 1905 Majoor der Chineezen te Medan. Tsjiong Tsiok Fie, Alias Tjong A Fie, 22 Nov. 1911 Majoor der Chineezen te Medan. Khoe Tjin Tek, 10 Nov. 1922. Kapitein der Chinezen te…
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Van Nie
VAN NIE & CO. Few firms on the east coast of Sumatra are better known than Van Nie & Co., local agents for the Koninklijke Paket- vaart Maatschappij, Sto. Maatschappij “Nederland,” Rotterdamsche Lloyd, £ Line, Java–Bengalen yn, and Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Ltd. The business was established in 1885 by Mr. Jacob van Nie, one…
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De Sumatra Post
The East Coast of Sumatra is well catered .for as regards newspapers, the Post being the leading organ. The Sumatra Post was established some thirteen years ago. After enlarging its issue from a bi-weekly into a daily paper in 1899 the Sumatra Post has succeeded in increasing the number of its readers year by year…
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A trip to Tobacco Field
Tobacco is grown extensively all over the Dutch East Indies, but it is reserved for Sumatra to produce the finest leaf, chiefly owing to the chemical composition of the soil and the suitability of climate. The districts of Deli, Langkat and Serdang, in the north-east corner of the island are famous for the excellence of…
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Cornfield Stores
A visit should also be paid to the establishment of Messrs. Cornfield. This business was founded by the late W. Cornfield in 1892 and is conducted by his sons as outfitters and general merchants. The firm are the official suppliers to the various sultans, and make a speciality of superior diamond jewellery of every description,…
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Nederlansche Handel-Maatschappij
Banking in Medan NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ (NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY) Principally a financial institution, carrying on a large general banking business, the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij, or Netherlands Trading Society, may be said to be one of the principal organizations that have made the Dutch East Indies what they are to- day. It owns or supervises many thou- sands…
Stories from Deli 