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The name is taken from the redness of the wood. `New Zealand Herald,' Feb. The allusion is to wheat being theleading export of South Australia. She-Oak nets, nets placed on each side of a gangwayfrom a ship to the pier, to prevent sailors who have beenindulging in she-oak (beer) falling into the water.

See under Fig-tree. , or Flooded F. West, `History of Tasmania,' vol. 163: A hot beverage in a tin pot, which richly deserved thecolonial epithet of `post-and-rail' tea, for it might w