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of the wood being- still sound, for it is one of the most 
durable of scrub timbers. 
The prices obtained towards the 80 's and 90 ’s were 
quite high comparatively, as the supply was becoming 
exhausted owing to the demand, for cedar was greatly in 
use for building as well as for cabinet work. 
There are still many old homes, built wholly or partly 
of this fine timber, and it was even used for slabs. It is 
not an uncommon thing to, come across cedar doors in the 
older settled districts, though too frequently they have 
been covered with a coating of paint instead of being 
cleaned and polished. 
The tree illustrated which is in what is now the Lam- 
ington National Park, Queensland, on the border of New- 
South Wales, is one which was passed over forty years ago 
as impracticable to market. Later by some twenty years, 
other men put two “scarves” in it, and again it was left. 
Then the park was gazetted, making it secure for ever. 
One of the “scarves” is seen in the photo, partly grown 
over with a small carbuncle below, there being a much 
larger carbuncle on the right side. (These carbuncles 
should now be quite valuable for veneer cutting purposes.) 
The circumference of the tree at about 3 feet is 44 
feet. There is a large branch near by blown off by storm, 
lying breast high, though torn from the trunk some 50 or 
60 feet above. 
The second photo is taken in the same district, a mile 
or two away, on Widgee Creek, but on private land ad- 
joining the Park, and is that of a grove of young cedars, 
some 10 to 15 years of age, growing naturally on a 
“bench” of cleared scrub land and doing well. This is 
the only such ease the writer knows of, though occasional 
young trees of this size are not at all uncommon. It should 
be interesting to watch the development of this group 
from a reafforestation point of view. 
NOTES. 
Writing under date 17/4/1933 from Eumundi to the 
Hon. Secretary of the Club, Miss M. C. Trundle states: — 
Those who visit the Noosa district of the North Coast 
Line pass through what is known as Clark’s Waterholes, 
and it is there that the Ground Parrot has been seen. It 
is about the size of a Blue Mountain, and the flight re- 
sembles a quail. It has been seen three times on the 
plains. The Christmas Bells are in full bloom after pass- 
ing Weyba Bridge, so much so that the earth is a blaze of 
colour. So far they are safe, but those Christmas Bells 
(Blond fordia) growing on Bribie Island have suffered 
much from the emus; they cross over from the mainland 
and eat the roots of the lilies, and soon Bribie will be 
without the Bells. 
