One Person Per Acre
DUTCH proverb says, God made the sea, but the Dutchman made the land. That proverb expresses the history of Holland, or more correctly the Netherlands. Holland is the name of the most important part of the country only,
/ but is widely used to indicate the whole of the country. It is a little wedge of country, with a lot of water in it, facing the great rollers of the North Sea. Except in the centre and in the South East near the German border,
the country is quite flat. Two large rivers, the Rhine and the Meuse, run through it, and there are 4700 miles of canals and navigable rivers. The country is only 12,700 miles in area, that is, considerably less than one-third the size of the North Island of New Zealand. Forty per cent. of it is below flood level, and 25 per cent. below sea level. This doesn’t leave a great deal of land for cultivation, and so, when you realise that there are over eight million people in it-one person to every acre-- you can understand that life, for the people of the Netherlands, has been a pretty desperate struggle. — ("Our Allies the Dutch." National Service Talk, 2YA, March 8.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 144, 27 March 1942, Page 3
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