Australian and Tasmanian Sandarach

This is one of the most valuable of Australian vegetable products, a market is ready for it, and it seems strange that it should have been so long neglected. There are no statistics available in regard to the importation of Sandarach into these colonies, but to bring it here at all is a veritable " carrying coals to Newcastle." In various parts of Australia and Tasmania there are vast numbers of Callitris trees, their resin, often abundant, can readily be collected, and the author is sure that, even with the cheap labour of Northern Africa to contend against, it can be profitably gathered during a portion of the year, by parties of men, or the families of settlers.
Mr. Stephens remarked how unfortunate it was that this beautiful and useful tree had, however, been destroyed, so far as it could be destroyed, by ring-barking over thousands of acres on the East Coast. J.H. Maiden, was Curator of the Technological Museum, Sydney.