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Summary of Land Transactions during 1894-95.

Crown Lands sold for Cash. —Seventy-three persons selected 725 acres 2 roods 23 perches for cash during the year, sixty-four of whom were purchasers of small township areas. The total price realised was £1,704 16s. Bd. A considerable number of other sections were sold in March, but not in time for them to be finally registered and included in the yearly returns. The principal sales effected were : Levin Township, on the Manawatu Eailway-line; Pongaroa, a new township started on the coast side of the Puketoi Eange, on the Main Alfredton-Weber Eoad, at a point where the traffic to the coast will leave the main road referred to, the shipping place of which will be the Aohanga Eiver. Pongaroa will in course of time become the distributing centre of a large quantity of fairly good agricultural and pastoral land, opened as farm-homestead settlements. Two other townships were opened on the North Island Main Trunk Eailway-line, one at Mangaweka, situated at a point where the traffic from the east side of the Eangitikei Eiver will cross that river; and the other at Taihape, the point where the produce from the Inland Patea country will join the railway-line. The sections in both these townships were keenly contested for, and realised good prices. I anticipate that considerable further sales will be effected in both of these townships next summer. Deferred-payment Lands.— -There are only 132 selectors under this system now on the books, holding an area of 29,710 acres and 22 perches, the yearly instalments of which amount to £5,192 12s. 7d. Forty-two persons completed their titles to an area of 8,613 acres and 17 perches. There were no forfeitures of selectors' interests under this system. Perpetual-lease Lands. —Under this heading there are 570 selectors on the books, holding an area of 225,116 acres 2 roods 20 perches, the annual rental beinj £11,478 13s. 6d. There were

Transactions during the Year. Area held at 31st March, 1895. Class of Selection. Revenue received during the Year. Number. Area. Number. Area. Cash, rural Cash, suburban Cash, town sections 9 3 61 A. E. P. 690 3 21 13 3 8 20 3 34 A. E. P. ::: I £ s. 634 19 1,904 2 *461 10 d. 5 0 0 Deferred-payment holders Deferred payment made freehold Perpetual-lease holders Perpetual lease made freehold Occupation, right of purchase Lease in perpetuity Conversions from perpetual lease Village settlement, deferred payment Village settlement, deferred payment made freehold Village settlement, perpetual lease . Village settlement, perpetual lease made freehold Village settlement, lease in perpetuity Village homestead, special settlement Special settlement, deferred payment Special settlement, deferred payment, made freehold Farm homestead, perpetual lease Parm homestead, lease in perpetuity Improved farms Small grazing-runs ... Pastoral leases Miscellaneous leases Other sources 73 725 2 23 132 29,710 0 22 | 3,000 11 5 42 8,613* 0 17 8,703 10 0 96 36 26 4 36,867 2 6 9,506 0 0 8,490 0 0 705 0 20 570 130 82 225,116 2 20 39,256' 1 5 27,253 1 7 10,742 16 1 32,903 2 9 449 1 6 193 5 11 25 238 0 14 16 105 0 16 | 249 3 7 8 80 0 17 10 18 9 4 19 3 17 73 19 7 90 2,105 0 1 110 2,352 2 23 490 8 11 186 2,421 0 31 f 1321 1 10 1 J272 18 0 123 12,131 1 9 336 33,629 2 34^1 7,993 0 3 24 4,800 0 0 50 13 0 136 27,200 0 0 945 182,166 3 10 2,451 7 9 25 2 2,247 0 0 1,559 2 8 25 87 22 25 2,247 0 0 84,903 2 22 40,791 0 0 1,533 1 38 1,729 12 11 303 16 8 610 5 0 5,804 4 9 i'6 659' 3 20 Grand totals... 692 111,068 0 15 2,698 676,367 0 7 76,353 18 8 * Scrip. t Rent. J Interest.