1080
NETHERLANDS
Letters
1910 Internal Foreign
1911 Internal Foreign
112,293,000 51,846,000
115,083,000 50,205,000
Newspapers and Printed Matter
89,525.904 240,770,000 16,568,451 26,957,000
90,540,632 17,039,307
257,608,546 27,788,609
Parcels
6,802,658 1,619,810
6,053,689 1,702,967
Letters with Monc'V Orders
500,966 118,385
497,742 121,132
The average number of letters and post-cards per inhabitant was 45 '8 in 1911.
The receipts of the Post Office in 1911 were 16,685,000 guilders, the ex- penditure 14,013,000 guilders.
There are several private telegraph lines, but most of the lines are owned by the State. The length of State lines on Dec. 31, 1911, was 4,729 miles, the leno'th of wires 23,534 miles. Thenumber of State offices was, on December 31, 1911, 1,072. The number of paid messages by State lines in 1911 was 6,404,000. The receipts of the State amounted in the same year to 2.582,000 guilders, and the ordinary expenses to 4,365,000 guilders.
In 1911 the interurban telephone system had 1, 909 miles of line and 45, 654 miles of wire, and is administered by the State ; 4,901,342 interurban and 633,573 international conversations were held. The receipts were in the sam'e year for interurban and international intercourse 2,074,000 guilders ; the total expenses 1,768,000 guilders.
Money and Credit.
The money in general circulation is chiefly silver. Before 1875 the Netherlands had the silver standard ; but a bill which passed the States - General in the session of 1875 allowed an unrestricted coinage of ten-guilder pieces in gold, whereas the coinage of silver was suspended for an unlimited time.
The total circulation, except the metal stock of the Bank, was valued as follows in thousands of guilde rs : —
I 1 I Gold, or covered
by gold at the
Bank was in
total
Jan. 1
Silver, Ac.
Gold
Paper money
Total
1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
66,529 120,852 108,587 104,225
87,162
17,551
47,807 47,807 47,807 47,807
274,448 232,468 287,918 280,553 283,270
358,628
451,127 444,312 432,585 418,239
66,427
91,790
101,052
120,980
124,771
Value of guilders) : —
money minted during the following years (in thousands of
Copper
For the
Total
Total number
Year
Gold
Silver 1,433
and Nickel
840
East India Colonies
value
of pieces
1881-90
4,030
2,660
8,955
111,768,000
1891-1900
4,540
12,285
470
7,496
24,791
340,574,090
1901-10
990
34,990
1,305
15,035
52,097
404,679,00C
1909
—
3,700
25
2,255
5,980
47,980,000
1910
—
3,445
—
3,000
6,445
29,130,000
1911
7,750
2,800
25
2,000
12,570
27,375,000
