LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS ACT: RETURN RELATIVE TO ESTATES ACQUIRED IN SOUTHLAND.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1903 Session I, C-05c

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1903. NEW ZEALAND-

LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS ACT: RETURN RELATIVE TO ESTATES ACQUIRED IN SOUTHLAND.

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the iiith July, 1903. Ordered, " That there be laid upon the table of this House a return showing (1) the number and area of the estates acquired in Southland under the Land for Settlements Aot; (2) the price paid for each, and the rate per acre; (3) the number of sections occupied and unocoupied, giving the name of the estate ; (4) the amount expended by the Government on the various estates in surveying, roading, &c.; (5) the revenue derived from each in the shape of rental ; and (6) the profit or loss, if any, made on each estate." —(Mr. J. C. Thomson.)

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Name of Estate. Area. Purchasemoney. Bate per Acre. Sections occupied. Sections unoccupied. Cost of Survey, Roads, &c. Bental received. Profit. IjOBS. lerrivalo A. B. P. 9,988 0 0 £ s. d. 24,995 0 0 £ s. d. 2 10 0 47 Nil £ s. d. 3,025 2 11 £ s. d. 9,690 3 1 £ s. d.i a,530 5 9 £ s. d. Itahu 6,153 0 36: 7,555 4 6] 14 6 12 Nil 777 9 7 1,228 2 0 390 10 7 ieaumoiit .. 4,484 0 4 10,482 11 3 2 6 9 6 8 87 8 9 ! 1,212 7 10 511 16 2 lingway .. 2,253 2 8 8,000 0 0 3 10 11 10 Nil 333 7 10 705 9 1 233 11 0 Henham 11,484 2 10 37,100 0 0 2 4 7 22 11 718 3 0 1,283 19 2 291 14 9