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quoted on this occasion, a large allowance must yet 

 be made for the enormous mass of wood from the felled 

 trees, which is left unutilized in the ranges, the dis- 

 tance, in many cases, being too great to convey the 

 ofif-fall of the timber for the purpose of fuel. The fol- 

 lowing data convey some information on the annual 

 consumption «f wood in various districts : 



Tons. 



Ararat (under license) 13, 146 



" (without " ) 13,146 



Blackwood Mining Division 12,000 



Buninyong 40,000 



Colac (for saw-mills, 6,000 tons ; posts and rails, 6,000 



tons ; shingles, 2,000 tons ; fuel, 30,000 tons) 44,000 



Creswick (sawn timber for Chines, 15,000 tons ; sawn 

 timber for Amherst, 2,000 tons ; sawn timber for 

 Creswick, 2,500 tons; fuel for Clunes, 30,000 



tons ; fuel for Creswick, 20,000 tons) 69,500 



Castlemaine 37,500 



Casterton 14,000 



Daylesford (mining timber, 20,000 tons ; fuel, 50,000 



tons) 70,000 



Dunkeld— sawn timber, 800,000 feet; rails, 20,000 

 pieces ; Red Gum posts, 10,000 pieces. 



Eltham 13,600 



Fryerstown 57,200 



Geelong 52,000 



Grant 4,600 



Maryborough 200,000 



Nunawading (cut under license) 10,000 



("without" ) .' 190,000 



Sandhurst 300,000 



( Another informant gives the approximate quan- 

 tity used solely for fuel at 160,000 tons.) 



St. Arnaud ^ 6,500 



Talbot (Shire of) and Borough of Amherst — Domestic 

 fuel for 2,887 houses, at 6 cords or 19 1-5 tons, 

 55,430 tons ; mining timber, 18,368 tons ; mills, 

 3,200 tons ; charcoal, 3,328 tons ; public institu- 

 tions, 2,560 tons ; bakers, etc., 1,600 tons ; fenc- 

 ing and building, 6,400 tons 90,886 



