DUTCH WATERWAYS
SHIPS SAILING ACROSS THE STATE t Ships of 2000 tons will now be able to sail to Maastricht, the chief town of the province of Limberg which curls round between Holland and Belgium. The opening of the southern part of the Princess Juliana Canal has made this possible and enabled coal from the Limberg mines to be carried all over Holland. The canal is nearly 20 miles long and is 52 feet wide and 16 feet deep. It has taken twenty years to build and cost £11,000,000. The total length of rivers and canals in Holland is half as much again as that of the roads, these waterways reaching a total of 4680 miles in this little country of 12,600 square miles of land. More than half the coal mines belong to the state, so that the new canal will add to the wealth of the State in more ways than one.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 6
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154DUTCH WATERWAYS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 6
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