THE LANDS REPORT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1219, 30 August 1911, Page 8

THE LANDS REPORT.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. The lands report was presented to Fnrliament to-day. The total number of selectors of all clns'cs (hiring tho past year amounted to 22G7 who bad selected an area of 1,112,712. Adding tbe Canterbury runs, which do not go to credit until last year there is a grand total of 232-3 selectors with a total area .selected of 2,792,243 acre?. There is at present under survey 744,652 acres, while for tho Native Land Court (carrying out Court orders) or Maori Land Boards for leasing, etc., there is under survey 029,870 acres of which 119,351) acres nro for Maori Land Board?. The gross revenue received during; tho past year was .£784,843, or .£109,93G more than last year, while tlie territorial revenue was .£2(9,21)9. For ordinary Crown hinds there wove. 1193 selectors who took up 551,444 acres—Nil! .It's than last year, and 135,802 acres Lands for settlement .show a considerable falling-oil' as only 25.034 had been taken up during the year, against 89,200 acres during last year. Tho settlement of national endowment land has becu fairly well upheld, the total nrca now selected h 18.!ifll,5CD, with a gross rental of ■£005,700.

A table under flic heading of Crown Land for Future Disposal fhows that the estimated area suitable for settlement purposes in .New Zealand is now 1,878,04!) acres, 4,' lie estimated area, suitable for pastoral purposes 2,(130,02!) acres. With regard to this table, it is explained that out of an estimated area suitable for settlement of 1,S78,<!1!) acres, only «omo inC,i)(!O acres are considered to bo first-class land. The answer to the question a? (o \)o\v tho present, supply of available Crown land may.be supplemented is that it may lie done from two sources—viz. (1) by the purchase, of private estates for subdivision under the provisions of tin; Land for Seti'lements Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Administration Act, l!) 09; and (2) by the purchase ui Jlaori lands >inder the provisions of tho iNalive Land Act, 1009.

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