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be heavy charges for storage and insurance. Madras has a little sandal- 

 wood, which is marketed by Mysore ; and Madras, apprehensive of the 

 difficulties of restriction as at present operating, would prefer that sandal- 

 wood was sold up to the dead wood limit. It points out with reason that 

 India is in fact making the market for Australia. There has therefore 

 been recently an effort to associate Australia with the scheme ; for the 

 lesson of rubber is that a scheme is likely to break down if it has outside 

 it a formidable competitor. 



In view of the high record of plantation economy in the nineteenth 

 and twentieth centuries it is almost comical to remember that ' to send to 

 the plantations ' signified in earlier days a sentence to penal servitude. 



