The cultivation of the wattle tree for its bark, valuable for tanning, has grown rapidlv in South Africa. In one year bark worth £ 1,900,000 was exported.
When people who <lo not know Australia hear or read a reference to "the bush" they generally imagine vast plains covered with scrub or low bushes. Actually the Australian bush means great tracts of forest land in which there are giant trees. Some of the world's best and most useful timber comes from the Australian bush.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 106, 7 May 1935, Page 15
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