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Enclosure 1. Return showing approximately, the Value of Saw Mills and of Forests and Timber, owned by Saw Mill Proprietors within the District of Hauraki, on June 30, 1875.

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Nainu of Owner. Cost of Mill and Plant. Date of Erection of Saw Mill. Situation of Timber Purchased. Date of Purchase of Timber. Amount paid for Timber, including Surveys of Land. Value of liOgS ill Stuck in Bush or at Mill. Estimated present value of Mills,Plant,i and Standing Forests. Total Value of Mills, Plant Standing Forests & Timber in stock. ill < I'S.fcH g IS h u ! Average ' Amount of i Timber Cut Annually. Average Annual Value of Timber Cut. Remarks. £ 23,000 1864 3,000 & 5,500 26,000 £ 31,500 100 3 i I 10 Feet. 3,000,000 18,500 1. Tairua Saw Mill Company 2. Mercury Bay Saw Mill Co. 9,000 1S63 Tairua Mercury Bay 1864 1863 5,500 8,UGG 12,000 20,066 70 2 8 2,500,000 11,250 Forests are extensive, but timber difficult to get out to mill. A good deal of the timber has been cut; but there is work for several yeara to 3. Schapp and Anaemic 4. C. A. Harris 5. C. A. Harris 4,500 15,000 10,000 1863 1802 1865 Mercury Bay ! Whangopoua 1863 1862 to 1870 3,750 2,500 ) 4,025 i 5,000 8,000 13,000 35 2 6 \ , 1,500,000 6,750 come. Same as above. 15,000 40,000 55,000 125 | 0 18 5,000,000 22,500 Many years' cutting still in forests ; large quantity shipped annually to Middle Island, South Sea Islands, and New Caledonia. 0. Cruickshank and Co. 7. It. Cashmore 8. Pollard and Co 4,500 5,000 2,500 1863 18G2 1865 Kennedy Bay Cabbage Bay Port Charles 1863 1862 1863-64 2,600 2,500 1,200 3,000 3,400 2,500 5,000 3,000 4,000 8,000 6,400 6,500 to 2 1 2 6 3 S 2,000,000 1,000,000 1,800,000 9,000 4,500 8,100 Timber will be cut out in a short time. Forests nearly cut out. Forests not very extensive ; will only last a few years. Mill generally idle ; forest being nearly all cut. Coromandel timber nearly cut out; mill will probably be removed to Mata-niata-harakeke. Forests extensive ; a great deal of timber has been cut. This mill has not hitherto been in full work ; timber chiefly consumed at G-rahamstown and Shortlaud ; forests extensive ; timber difficult to get to mill. This mill cuts white pine occasionally as well as kauri. 0. Charles King 2,700 1859 Coromandel 1S59 1,000 150 2,000 2,150 i 1 500,000 2,250 10. A. J. Cadmau 3,500 1865 Goromandel and Malamataharakokc. 1864 and 1872 1,150 1,000 5,000 6,000 20 2 300,000 1,350 11. W. C. Daldy 8,000 1865 Waikawau and Mata Rivers and tributaries. Waiwhakaurangi River and tributaries. 1864 2,500 3,000 7,000 10,000 39 2 6 2,000,000 9,000 12. Shortland Saw Mill Co. ... 9,291 1872 1869 5,427 11,666 15,000 20,666 B0 1 3 3,500,000 15,750 13. Joha Gibbons 4,700 1874 Kirikiri, and on bank of Waihou and Ohiiiemuri Rivers. Turua Forest, Waihou or Thames River. 1871-72 2,200 4,750 6,000 10,750 65 2 0 1,900,000 8,550 14 Hauraki Saw Mill Co. ... 3,964 1869 1868 3,843 650 10,000 10,650 tin 2 8 2,900,000 6,000 This mill cuts white pine only. A great part is shipped to Foreign Markets, the remainder is consumed at Grahamstown and Shortland ; forest extensive. This mill is situated at Grahamstown, and is connected with window-sashjdoor-making, and wood-dressing machinery; the product is consumed in the district. 15. Holdship and Co. ... 1,200 Otuturu Block ... 1870 850 700 1,750 500,000 2,250 1868 2,450 20 2 Totals ... 106,855 64,982 209,732 678 27 "Si 127,500,000 ... 42,045 144,750 120,750 15th July, 1875. James Mackay. *