PICTURESQUE HOLLAND.
COLOURFUL STREET SCENES
Cheese-making is one of tlie' greatest industries of that picturesque country, Holland. And such wonderful cowsheds! The walls are covered with brightlycoloured tiles, the floor with white ones, and in some places the floor is actually carpeted! A very pretty scene is when on market day, carts of all colours— red, blue, green and yellow—piled with large, round, golden cheeses, drive along in a seemingly never-ending stream. The cheeses are piled in great heaps all over the market place. Cheeses that are shipped abroad are painted a bright red to help preserve them. The shining milk-cans arc drawn by dogs, who arc willing pullers. The great, quaint windmills are used for grinding corn, sawing timber, paper-making, and to pump water up from the lowlands below the dykes, to the higher canals, and from here it runs into the sea, so they are useful as well an ornamental.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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152PICTURESQUE HOLLAND. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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