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 6?4 K. V. RAOASWAM1 AI'YAIgAR over 60 rupees. The "other" expenses are reckon- ed at as much as between Rs. 20 and per wagon. The absolute minimum cost therefore,- Rs. 11-8 to Madura depots will be, Rs. 18 a ton. As a matter of fact, Rs. 80 at the the sale price is much higher as Madura has to draw its supplies from more distant areas like the reserves near Tenmalai, Travancore, 168 miles off. Tenmalai firewood at Mad ura to Rs. 17-8 a ton. When due allowance is made for losses in transit, municipal taxes etc., it will be seen why firewood which costs at the starting railway stations only Rs. 5 or Rs. 6 a ton, costs nearly four times as much at a city like Madura. in The bare cost price of will range from Rs. 16 ANNEXURE H FAST GROWING FUEL SPECIES 2. 8. 4. 5. Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus Globulus). Grewellis Robusta (Silver Oak). Casuarina (Casuarina Equisetifolia). Raintree (Pithecolobium Saman). (Inga Dulcis). Korakkaipule 6. Manjakonnai (Cassia Siames). 7. Konnai (Cassia Fistula). 8 9. 10. 11. 1'2. 13. 14. 15. Vedathalei (Dichrostachys Cineria). Usilai (Albizzia Amsrs). Vagai (Albizzia Lebbek). Sila Vagai. (Albizzia Odoratissima). Mulberry (Morus Alba). Varactia. (Poinciana Elata). Kollamavu (Machilus Macrantha). Vehhali (Anogeissus Latifolia).