GOVERNMENT VALUATIONS: AREAS AND VALUATIONS OF COUNTIES, BOROUGHS, AND TOWN DISTRICTS.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1904 Session I, B-17a

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1904. NEW ZEALAND.

GOVERNMENT VALUATIONS: AREAS AND VALUATIONS OF COUNTIES, BOROUGHS, AND TOWN DISTRICTS.

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the 30th June, 1904. Ordered " That there be laid before this House a return showing—(l) The total area, capital and unimproved values of the counties of the colony ; and (2) the total area, capital and unimproved values of the b .roughs and town districts of the colony: such return to give separately the same particular., for the Cities of Wellington, Auckland, Dunelin, and Christehurch."—(Mr. Fowlds.)

SUMMARY. Values as at 31st March, 1904.

John McGowan, Valuer-General. Valuation Department, Wellington, 16th September, 1904.

COUNTIES.—(A.) (Including Interior Town Districts, also shown separately.)

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Area. Capital Value of Land and Improvements. Unimproved Value of Land. Counties (including interior Town Districts) Boroughs Town Districts (also included in totals for Counties) Auckland City* Wellington City* Christchurch City* Dunedin City* 102,258 sq. miles £ 121,966,152 £ 82,513,630 172,955 acres ... 28,742 „ 60,830,089 1,379,052 30,115,782 551,874 1,762 5,062 „ 4,598 „ 1,800 „ 7,287,925 12,884,072 7,401,260 .5,441,582 3,734,874 7,666,222 ■ 3,271,478 2,565,904 *Also included in totals for boroughs as shown above.

County. Area in Square Miles Capital Value of Land and Improvements. Unimproved Value of Land. Mongonui Whangaroa Bay of Islands ... Hokianga Whangarei Hobson Otamatea Rodney Waitemata Eden ... Manukau Islands — Great and Little Barrier Other islands in Hauraki Gulf Waikato Raglan ... Waipa ... Kawhia... Coromandel Thames... Ohinemuri 934 160 826 972 928 668 364 566 613 43 791 £ 227,808 76,966 418,336 439,798 708,079 623 934 441,014 332,704 806,129 3,411,337 2,116,783 £ 156,643 47,108 266,706 348,568 377,057 411,464 264,976 155,228 444,842 1,772,273 1,142,484 591 824 282 1,515 403 494 478 61,732 87,021 797,794 753,647 727,470 552,744 547,843 377,538 463,550 39,621 45,005 382,696 471,042 348,011 489,291 357,630 240,324 267,631 Carried forward 11,452 13,972,227 8,028,600

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COUNTIES— continued. (Including Interior Town Districts, also shown separately)— continued.

County. Area in Square Miles. ..apital Value oi Land and Improvements. Unimproved Value of Land. Brought forward Tauranga Piako ... Rotorua Whakatane Opotiki... East Taupo West Taupo Islands ... Waiapu... Cook ... Wairoa ... Hawke's Bay Waipawa Woodville Patangata Weber ... Clifton ... Taranaki Stratford Egmont Hawera Patea ... Waitotara Wanganui Waimarino Rangitikei Kiwitea... Pohangina Manawatu Oroua ... Kairanga Horo whenua Islands ... Pahiatua Akitio ... Castlepoint Eketahuna Mauriceville Masterton Wairarapa South Featherston • 11,452 577 1,095 984 1,716 1,440 2,581 1,594 1,121 1,950 1,887 3,232 990 164 641 106 1,518 386 784 254 381 691 343 602 1,340 852 336 295 267 213 184 591 £ 13,972,227 404,640 987,696 487,265 386,175 542,116 510,311 261,804 5,780 1,002,515 3,482,678 1,384,645 4,475,119 3,171,017 733,436 2,060,952 303,188 807,584 1,753,811 1,479,214 976,900 2,792,994 1,383,399 1,058,812 1,529,499 698,499 2,626,717 1,105,206 572,821 1,198,277 1,183,662 1,659,335 1,864,114 113,541 1,297,346 499,461 385,349 547,230 322,089 1,810,237 1,123,621 2,049,752 1,956,982 206,224 277,622 1,598,219 364,899 2,436,566 553,488 574,840 856,627 808,738 809,675 707,388 937,755 4,341,455 8,335,784 211,580 1,315,487 5,041,270 2,148,433 1,562,164 819,336 2,915,603 2,904,184 £ 8,028,600 265,324 527,738 403,138 318,075 416,506 498,884 235,548 3,696 577,148 2,129,113 915,554 3,289,477 2,075,638 459,927 1,491,290 162,690 605,437 1,023,747 898,265 586,186 1,866,838 849,008 698,532 994,644 584,690 1,520,328 653,104 333,414 853,518 771,353 1,195,924 1,198,431 69,216 738,551 304,710 216,556 295,515 152,759 1,085,594 689,825 1,392,452 1,099,678 124,155 146,514 967,537 217,869 1,800,291 408,637 337,319 616,171 627,337 669,219 561,212 723,316 3,398,861 5,794,633 150,396 958,105 3,919,733 1,694,723 1,197,386 670,798 2,418,579 2,297,621 Hutt Collingwood Takaka ... Waimea Sounds ... Marlborough Kaikoura Buller ... 302 328 150 170 125 670 445 965 590 627 402 1,662 573 3,812 673 1,818 2,256 1,452 4,420 322 2,362 1,627 2,597 59 294 2,542 945 273 2,537 1,343 2,333 Inangahua Grey ... Westland Cheviot... Amuri ... Ashley ... Selwyn ... Mount Herbert ... Akaroa ... Ashburton Geraldine Levels ... Mackenzie Waimate Waitaki... Carried forward 79,241 106,695,383 72,177,033

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COUNTIES— continued. (Including Interior Town Districts, also shown separately)— continued.

BOROUGHS.—(B.)

County. Area in Square Miles. Capital Value o] Land and Improvements. Unimproved Value of Land. Brought forward Maniototo Waihemo Waikouaiti Peninsula Taieri ... Tuapeka Bruce ... Islands ... Clutha ... Vincent... Lake Fiord ... Wallace... Southland Stewart Island ... Islands 79,241 1,239 336 318 37 930 1,365 503 £ 106,695,383 568,061 462,802 691,304 534,479 1,538,721 919,812 1,077,601 3,450 1,309,156 473,143 345,424 144,425 1,945,499 5,081,705 161,307 13,880 £ 72,177,033 370,564 313,047 379,212 308,358 1,082,971 612,502 740,413 900 873,054 303,125 250,679 137,645 1,334,933 3,480,307 135,007 13,880 946 2,684 3,712 3,040 3,404 3,852 651 Totals 102,258* £121,966,152 £82,513,630 • Omitting islands.

Borough. Area in Acres (including Town Belt). Capital Value of Land and Improvements. . Unimproved Value of Land. Whangarei Birkenhead Devonport Auckland Parnell ... Newmarket Grey Lynn Onehunga Hamilton Cambridge Thames Tauranga Te Aroha Waihi ... Gisborne Napier ... Hastings Dannevirke Woodville New Plymouth ... Hawera Patea ... Stratford Eltham... Inglewood Wanganui Marton ... Feilding Palmerston North Foxton ... Onslow... Karori ... Wellington— City Ward Melrose Ward ... Pahiatua Masterton Carterton 2,038 2,700 640 1,762 480 150 900 1,200 1,600 1,083 2,560 1,000 200 3,757 1,260 879 5,740 1,222 1,240 850 500 1,420 1,920 1,590 704 1,000 1,423 3,500 4,593 5,760 2,870 5,127 £ 161,503 109,926 598,364 7,287,925 464,841 220,940 578,943 293,069 289,141 88,587 295,783 89,230 55,757 187,450 527,297 1,294,497 565,474 367,241 98,008 987,127 330,299 64,109 312,621 171,416 138,686 1,332,946 116,631 333,566 1,419,893 121,579 288,347 344,771 £ 61,491 50,124 243,176 3,734,874 193,547 94,802 274,698 140,404 183,443 27,821 115,314 30,240 24,189 64,667 312,173 585,570 318,561 227,147 43,756 616,423 177,046 21,919 158,552 98,235 67,055 854,556 40,512 167,520 868,797 61,509 147,847 211,413 1,100 3,962 740 4,311 1,880 11,802,759 1,081,313 149,102 740,479 170,652 6,913,234 752,988 71,737 406,573 82,172 Carried forward 73,661 33,480,272 18,444,085

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BOROUGHS— continued.

Borough. Area m Acres (inoluding Town Belt). 3apital Value ol Land and Improvements. Unimproved Value of Land. Brought forward Greytown Lower Hutt Petone ... Richmond Nelson ... Picton ... Blenheim Motueka Westport Greymouth Brunner Kumara Hokitika Ross 73,661 3,907 3,225 952 2,300 4,800 560 1,571 5,643 713 2,000 5,700 842 1,280 4,196 1,040 1,020 & 33,480,272 149,943 826,762 499,854 99,022 865,161 118,518 401,668 139,661 199,919 543,615 70,330 34,575 168,693 21,006 189,719 164,416 £ 18,444,085 58,974 619,457 255,916 53,813 348,906 52,351 170,761 84,922 82,586 183,240 11,539 6,072 66,008 5,413 74,980 48,517 Rangiora Kaiapoi... Christehurch— Central Ward ... St. Albans Ward Sydenham Ward Linwood Ward Woolston New Brighton 1,249 1,500 1,190 659 1,276 1,500 4,876 2,014 221 680 794 1,100 649 1,111 640 113 800 2,700 335 1,670 5,980 3,700 2,000 654 1,800 1,073 413 463 103 967 400 640 126 265 568 1,158 390 923 640 840 1,150 1,530 160 240 80 326 121 1,040 4,000 718 2,000 4,627,411 951,962 1,117,303 704,584 259,503 100,566 165,680 853,204 55,418 264,588 123,443 874,804 142,282 531,719 21,539 34,249 58,756 61,414 259,145 148,996 365,354 236,816 600,325 388,266 5,441,582 617,760 469,363 268,787 40,861 166,683 30,545 99,874 19,069 138,868 96,546 62,520 27,183 70,294 38,402 45,803 285,907 128,001 49,829 39,790 26,690 50,492 58,259 1,255,449 118,253 60,826 201,992 2,282,830 365,211 385,446 237,991 109,377 46,245 85,509 238,897 17,778 97,561 37,388 324,610 51,658 179,223 7,460 4,174 14,354 28,530 80,438 65,239 155,471 110,590 249,011 152,443 2,565,904 253,009 142,141 130,486 11,234 65,200 3,448 23,339 2,580 38,562 32,809 28,037 4,754 12,226 9,149 10,257 105,958 50,111 19,613 16,140 8,093 20,312 17,695 500,375 45,038 15,206 89,132 Sumner Lyttelton Akaroa Ashburton Temuka Timaru Waimate Oamaru Hampden Naseby... Palmerston Hawkesbury Port Chalmers West Harbour North-east Valley Maori Hill Roslyn ... Mornington Dunedin Caversham South Dunedin ... St. Kilda Green Island Mosgiel Roxburgh Lawrence Tapanui Milton Balclutha Kaitangata Arrowtown Queenstown Cromwell Alexandra Gore Mataura Winton... Gladstone Avenal ... North Invercargill East Invercargill Invercargill South Invercargill Riverton Carnpbelltown Totals 172,955 £30,115,782 £60,830,089

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TOWN DISTRICTS.—(C.) (Also included in Totals of Counties—Table A.)

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Town District. Area in Acres. i Capital Value of Uni ved Value Land and of Land. Improvements. Kamo ... Helensville Papakura Ngaruawahia Te Awamutu Kihikihi Opotiki ... Clyde ... Taradale Waipawa Ormondville Kaikora North ... Raleigh... Opunake Manaia ... Normanby Waverley Lethbridge Bull's ... Halcombe Featherston John son ville Havelock Amberley Southbridge Hampstead Tinwald Geraldine Outram Grey (Allanton) ... Clinton ... Otautau Wyndham ... 1,276 1,280 1,280 385 1,182 5151 7881 1,384 1,296 4 411 1,258* 1,174* 830 691 729J 646* 470 1,176 636* 635* 889* 1,280 200 648 524* 1,280 1,475 688 921i 154* 921$ 934$ 748 £ £ 24,927 9,041 27,323 5,143 22,836 8,485 20,613 5,774 31,206 11,616 15,998 5,025 58,212 31,718 58,190 29,344 67,652 34,341 96,399 47,063 36,564 10,406 25,942 11,293 49,857 19,159 73,497 39,217 39,790 14,078 27.284 11,003 32,889 9,832 27,024 11,143 38,948 11,790 21,443 5,428 60.285 16,576 71,332 31,241 26,830 8,837 31,293 10,426 36,652 - 12,991 97,182 42,242 57,138 31,124 59,618 14,689 44,645 22,016 9,976 3,540 19,918 6,484 32,086 9,146 35,503 11,663 Totals 28,742 £1,379,052 £551,874