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Cause. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Lightning 
Bombala. N.S.W 
1911 November 
Cyclone 
Tarcoola, S.A 
December 
Lightning 
Nevilleton, Queensland 
1912, November. 
Thunderstorm 
Darling Downs, Queensland ... 
,, November. 
Hurricane 
Quambone, N.S.W 
,, November. 
Storms 
Hurricane 
Peninsula Division, Queensland 
Eyre's Peninsula, South Australia 
Crow's Nest, Queensland 
,, November. 
,, October. 
,, October. 
Hailstorms 
New South Wales 
., March. 
Wind storms 
Lismore, N.S.W 
, , February. 
Bush fires 
King Island 
,, January. 
Cyclone 
Tornadic wind 
Barrow Creek, South Australia 
Blayney, N.S.W., and White Cliffs, N.S.W. 
Wonthaggi, Victoria ... 
1913, February 17th. 
November 12th. 
,, December. 
Winton, Queensland ... 
,, December. 
Bush fires 
Lithgow, N.S.W 
1915, January 28th. 
Coonabarabran, N.S.W. ... ... ... 
,, January 28th. 
Lightning 
Jones Island, N.S.W. 
1914, January 5th. 
Narromine, N.S.W. 
,, January 3rd. 
Bush fires .. 
Culcairn, N.S.W 
,, January 5th. 
Windstorm 
Morec, N.S.W. 
,, January 20th. 
Lightning 
Penrith, N.S.W 
,, January 19th. 
Hailstorm 
Koorawatha, N.S.W. ... 
,, January 29th. 
Bush fires 
Wingham, N.S.W 
January 29th. 
Taree, N.S.W 
,, January 29tli. 
Crookwell, N.S.W 
March 20th. 
Hurricane 
Sydney, N.S.W 
March 28th. 
Storm 
Shepherd's Siding, N.S.W 
November. 
Penrith, N.S.W 
,, December 22nd. 
(a) Frost. Schlich* (iv. 425) says frost causes damage in four ways : 
1 . By freezing young woody plants or young organs of plants. 
2. Splitting the stems of trees. 
3. Causing canker in stems of trees. 
4. Uprooting young plants. 
We have severe frosts on the table-lands of New South Wales, and exceptionally 
severe ones, as in 1895. We have, however, made scarcely any observations on their 
effects on timber trees. Some years ago, under the title " Injury to Forest Vegetation 
by Frost during the winter of 1895," If tabulated the reports supplied by some foresters, 
but the trees referred to were the indigenous forests unplanted by the hands of man, 
which had become acclimatised to their surroundings during a long period of time. 
In Europe the forests are mostly planted, and in many cases their resistance to frost 
remains to be ascertained. The damages done by frost to planted trees are proportionately 
greater than in our forests, which contain but an infinitesimal proportion of planted 
trees, and we have yet to deal with the meteorological conditions in a comparative 
manner, i.e., in regard to the relative resistance of various indigenous and exotic 
trees under our conditions. 
* The wurk referred to under tlii.s title is Dr. Sehlich's " Manual of Forestry " in five volumes 
t Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., Jan., 1896, p. 9. 
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