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the accompanying photograph (Plate cv), which represents the Shire Dam at 

 Buddigower, near VVyalong, New South Wales. The photograph was taken 

 towards the end oi [919, during the very severe droughl oi that year, and a1 

 the time when most oi the smaller dams had dried up. 



Plate CV 



The Buddigower Dam. 

 Near Wyalong New South V\ 



The larger Eucalyptus oil distilleries in the "Mallee" country in Victoria 

 have provided themselves with au abundant supply of water by similar methods. 



As Eucalyptus oil is so easily distilled, and the leai material not difficult 

 to collect, it is only natural thai very crude apparatus is sometimes employed, 

 although with the more advanced distilleries, quite expensive and up-to-date 

 steam-distilling plants are in operation. The consideration of the erection oi a 

 permanent plant of large capacity is, of course, a matter oi ways and means, 

 depending also on the available supplj oi leaf. 



Eucalyptus species mostly -row intermixed, and it is only in ra 

 instances that a particular species is found predominating over an ar< 

 country to any great extent, so that ii energetically worked for oil produi 

 the species maj soon be cut out in close proximity to a | ermanent plant oi large 

 dimension. For this and other reasons, it has, in certain cases, been considered 

 advantageous to ereel mobile distilling plants, which are removable without 

 difficulty to Iresli localities. 



