CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 4

CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

" COMPULSORY • PURCHASE-OF* ] - P gg ESTATES. '!p g|| jp Pakticulaks of the estates acquired by ife» ggi ! Government under the compulsory clause* of the Lands for Settlement Act at October 31„w1507, were laid before the House last - week. : The details are: — I- Ardgowan: Price paid, £34,000; taof value, £31,246; cost of survey, etc., £4252;5 * number of tenants -at} March 31. 3307, 66; total receipts to date, £20,378. '■a? fiatuxna : C Price - paid, ; £141,393; ; tai C ;J value, £117,920: cost of survey, etc., ' £8056; number of tenaii.ts, 62; tote! receipts to date, £45,198.. ■' „vi Kumeroa: ' : Price" ? paid,* .; £29,092; i=t tax %U§ [ value, £21,680; cost- of survey,' etc., £3227; number of tenants, 15 m total receipts, £7580. >: t \ -WSnJ ' • Forest Gate: Price paid, | £48,521; | tax 1"1 1 value, £31,815; cost of survey,- etc., £1196; number of tenants, 28 total receipts, i £11,882. || | g|p: . . | Matamata: Price > paid) *£127,515; -,tax value, £109,635; 1 cost |j of . survey, etc;., S £9199; number of tenants, 178; totaj. re- ; ,ceipts, £18,318. VcJ'kL ' . • -.v-Flaxbourne': Price paid, t £183,004; tax value, £120,509;- cost- ''of 'survey;' etc., t'< £22,309; ! number of tenants, 132; c total re- j ceipts, £18,939. Lindsay: Price paid,. £96,206; tax value, : £87,244; cost of• survey; etc., £9448 ; number of tenants, 67; total receipts; £10,443,• -.%Tawaha: Price paid, £M,133; tax yatee,j^,l ■ £27,736; cost of survey, etc., £1365 number of tenants, 23; total i«eoeiptfi, £1901, 'jCs; | Waimana: -Price" paid, £18,492';' Hpbf||B value, £15,596; cost of survey, etc., £586. ■ ; No further figures are given, aa the estate was only opened for sehsction on AuP s ' 5, 1907. __________ ;