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less to remark that exclusion of traffic from the sand 
is imperative, as also security against ingress of goats 
and domestic animals of any kind, otherwise the ef- 
fort is hopeless. Fencing of the area and stringent 
municipal laws will make, however, any operations 
of this kind, even without great expense, a success, 
as, in consequences of my advice, has been shown 
at Queenscliff. Wood -culture on drift - sand carries 
with it also the recommendation of providing the 
needful belt of shelter which each coast should pos- 
sess. There are a few other Pines—for instance, Pi- 
nus Taeda, the Loblolly Pine of North America, and 
several other trees which grow fast in sand, whenever 
it is no longer moving ; they endure the sea-storms, 
gradually consolidate the soil, and render it, in course 
of time, arable. In South Africa, some Protez and 
Leucospermums, the Virgilia, also Myrica, grow in 
coast-sand. All these planting operations must be 
performed very early, and in the cool season. The 
grasses and herbs must precede the pines and other 
trees. Technic industries will gain from these pines 
in due time. 
I now beg to offer some brief data in reference to 
the present consumption of wood in Victoria. 
After the perusal of various official returns, I am 
inclined to assume that twenty tons would be a fair 
average of the quantity of fuel consumed in each 
household. This would amount to rather more than 
three millions of tons of wood as the present annual 
requirement of domestic fuel in this colony. In the 
city and suburbs the consumption is considerably less 
than in the farming districts, on account of the use of 
coal, In reference to the return of mining- wood, 
