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

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

 towards the end of 1919, during the very severe drought of that year, and at 

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



PLATE CV. 



THE I3UDDIGOWER DAM. 

 Near Wyalong, New South Wales. 



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

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



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

 to collect, it is only natural that 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 of a 

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

 depending also on the available supply of leaf. 



Eucalyptus species mostly grow intermixed, and it is only in rare 

 instances that a particular species is found predominating over an area of 

 country to any great extent, so that if energetically worked for oil production 

 the species may soon be cut out in close proximity to a permanent plant of large 

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

 advantageous to erect mobile distilling plants, which are removable without 

 difficulty to fresh localities, 



