IN THE LAND OF CANALS.—A scene in Amsterdam, the commercial capital and the largest city of the Netherlands. A fishing village before 1200, Amsterdam has now a population of over 700,000. It retains the tradition of the Dutch colonial trade, though Rotterdam shares the reality. With good harbourage and wide-reaching ocean traffic, it is hampered in shipping and transport by difficult access to the open sea. To remedy this were undertaken the North Holland (1819-25) and North Sea (1865-95) canals. The city depends for security against attack principally upon a system of dykes and sluices whereby the surrounding districts can be readily inundated. Amsterdam is closely linked up with Holland’s network of inland canals. Photograph shows a city landing-stage with a motor-boat ready to take tourists for an excursion along the picturesque canals.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 23

IN THE LAND OF CANALS.—A scene in Amsterdam, the commercial capital and the largest city of the Netherlands. A fishing village before 1200, Amsterdam has now a population of over 700,000. It retains the tradition of the Dutch colonial trade, though Rotterdam shares the reality. With good harbourage and wide-reaching ocean traffic, it is hampered in shipping and transport by difficult access to the open sea. To remedy this were undertaken the North Holland (1819-25) and North Sea (1865-95) canals. The city depends for security against attack principally upon a system of dykes and sluices whereby the surrounding districts can be readily inundated. Amsterdam is closely linked up with Holland’s network of inland canals. Photograph shows a city landing-stage with a motor-boat ready to take tourists for an excursion along the picturesque canals.