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1886. NEW ZEALAND.

RATEABLE PROPERTY IN NEW ZEALAND (RETURN OF ASSESSED VALUES OF).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

1882. —Total rateable value, exclusive of lands rateable under the Crown and Native Lands Eating Act, but inclusive of the proportion of leased pastoral lands of the Crown upon which rates are paid by occupiers, and exclusive of Native lands outside the five-mile limit. LBB5. —Total rateable value, exclusive of all Crown lands and of Native lands rateable under the Crown and Native Lands Eating Act, and of Native Lands outside the five-mile limit.

District. Assessment, 1882. Assessment, 1885. Boeoughs. Auckland Newmarket Onehunga Parnell ... Thames ... Hamilton £ 2,826,144 103,799 172,238 271,979 190,941 106,428 185,686 205,360 98,491 £ 6,150,869 166,940 256,906 431,446 179,129 83,674 173,674 397,783 291,955 Tauranga Devonport Newton ... Napier Gisbotne... 776,107 256,282 1,070,182 295,233 Wellington New Plymouth Hawera ... Patea Wanganui Feilding ... Palmerston North... 3,403,402 374,632 94,222 137,035 532,574 137,386 266,442 77,383 238,824 85,718 3,530,742 312,977 88,518 95,093 471,010 117,515 264,209 83,108 316,045 91,791 Marton ... Masterton Grey town Nelson Westport Eoss Kumara ... Hokitika... Greymouth Blenheim Picton 851,601 59,949 17,174 15,111 101,650 128,699 255,896 83,361 884,758 114,981 21,710 17,600 92,961 164,435 390,351 74,843 Christchureh Lyttelton Sydenham St. Albans Kaiapoi ... Rangiora... Akaroa ... Ashburton 3,221,592 379,214 701,239 512,494 94,966 140,101 56,942 213,090 3,573,899 369,899 705,808 533,726 108,325 140,010 57,729 206,248^ Timaru ... 561,971 788,358 19,249 75,507 509,590 702,743 12,801 67,514 Oamaru ... Hampden Waimate... Dunedin ... Caversham South Dunedin 4,376,038 460,700 289,536 4,231,687 437,936 224,690

District. Assessment, 1882. Assessment, 1885. . Bokoughs— contd. St. Kilda... Eoslyn ... Maori Hill Mornington North-east Valley ... West Harbour Green Island Mosgiel ... Port Chalmers Hawksbury Palmerston Alexandra Cromwell Naseby ... Lawrence Tapanui ... Eoxburgh Milton ... Balclutha £ 205,175 383,283 199,423 307,014 342,485 181,531 39,640 79,677 220,996 19,744 54,825 7,010 30,016 25,085 81,640 22,528 17,515 77,661 58,774 £ 149,206 379,316 169,560 342,545 323,316: 156,340 39,164 110,580 205,296 18,274 53,884 9,551 29,604 21,258 80,501 20,404 17,144 73,464 52,495 Invercargill North Invercargill... South Invercargill... East Invercargill ... Gladstone Campbelltown Avenal Winton ... Eiverton ... Arrowtown Queenstown Gore 766,222 44,988 76,380 61,505 34,316 58,377 27,560 24,282 84,010 29,783 51,184 49,757 1,032,444 46,000 94,987 62,325 37,551 62,507 24,910 21,106 69,571 27,588 58,314 74,850 Total Boroughs 27,607,897 32,377,098 Counties. Mongonui Bay of Islands Hokianga Whangarei Hobson ... Rodney ... Waitemata Eden Manukau Coromandel Thames ... Ohinemuri Eaglan ... Waikato ... 144,152 174,869 115,085 385,566 300,984 241,201 553,257 1,459,877 1,259,318 131,248 I 160,039 190,237 100,771 434,329 326,323 288,548 795,703 2,523,211 1,352,257 105,605 128,799 79,964 177,454 769,618 1 i 255,685 160,000 799,823