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Acacia aneura - Mulga

A.P.M. Timber Hill, Maryvale. All logs are broken down into flitches by the rig shown (centre background) and thence conveyed to left or right for timer or pulp according to quality. Logs purchased as lumber are end coated with green dye.

Booklet from the memorial service for Ron Hateley

A Selector cutting posts for fencing

Men walking on a sand dune in the Mallee.

A public monument protected by wood and sandbags

21.5x15cm Is Captioned : "No. 2 . A log being removed from treatment tanks. Logs are boiled for many hours to soften the fibres and thus facilitate smoother cutting."

1 Booklet and 29 maps in boxed set.

A large cork factory. Seville Spain.

A good stand of cork oaks in Andalucia the province of Southern Spain which is the centre of production of that country. The trunk of the tree on the left including the lower branches is being stripped. Note the hatchet used to griddle and pry off…

Self published biography with accompanying letter from Leon Pederick

A dramatic close-up of water at work. It is the Salt River, in slight flood stage, cutting out extensive silt deposits in the upper part of the Roosevelt Reservoir basin and carrying the mud down nearer the dam.

This copy has E.J. Semmens name in the front cover

Sample page from A Catalogue of the shells contained in the geology cabinet in the University Building foyer

Card sorting key for Pinus. Series of punched cards. Cell structure diagrams on rear. Plant characteristics on face. Complete set with instruction booklet boxed in a red case.

95. H.P. Cletrac with angledozer, roadmaking at Kiewa. Later stage S.E.C. unit.

Native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere, the cones are berry-like and, when dried, can have culinary use.

Prince Charles planted this tree when he stayed on site in 1974.

The Pinus radiata in the Pine Triangle are at least 85 years old. Native to small areas on the central coast of California and Mexico, these conifers proved to perform well under Victorian conditions because they were fast-growing, tolerant of the…