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APPENDICES.

APPENDIX No. I.—ADMINISTBATION.

EXTEACTS FEOM THE EEPOETS OF THE COMMISSIONEES OF OEOWN LANDS ON SETTLEMENT OPEEATIONS DUEING THE TWELVE MONTHS ENDED THE 31st MAECH, 1898. AUCKLAND. In reporting upon the progress of settlement in this district I desire to call attention to the general summary of transactions following this opening paragraph, which shows that the year has been a fairly progressive one from a settlement point of view, as there are seventy selectors in excess of last year who took up land under the occupation-with-right-of-purchase and lease-in-perpetuity tenures, the area so selected being 15,363 acres more than the previous year. The revenue has also come well up to the estimate, and is some £5,553 in excess of that of last year.

Summary of Land Transactions during the Year 1897-98.

* Including £73 12s. 6d. repayment of advances. t Including £2 2s. miscellaneous leases under Land for Settlements Act. J Includes three seleotors (298 aores 2 roods 3 perches) of land under Land for Settlements Acts. Survey-fees not included in above received during year, £554 Iβ. 9d. It will be noticed from the above summary that the area of cash land-sales is almost exactly the same as last year. The total receipts under that heading, adding in the perpetual leases made freehold, amount to £11,315, or about £380 more than the receipts of 1896-97. Deferred-payment Lands. —The number of selectors and area held under this system has still further decreased. There are now only 220 selectors, holding 25,214 acres. Twenty selectors, holding 2,001 acres, have acquired the freehold during the past year, and one selection has been forfeited. Of the 220 selectors now on the books, some eighty-six are in arrears with their payments, to the amount of £569.

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Class of Selection. Transactions during the Year. Area held on 31st March, 1898. Revenue received during the Year. Number. . Area. Number. Area. Cash — Town Suburban Bural 22 17 58 A. 22 67 6,262 B. P. 2 38 3 15 2 30 A. B. P £ Total cash Deferred payment ... Perpetual lease Perpetual lease, freehold Occupation, right of purchase Lease in perpetuity Lease in perpetuity under Land for Settlements Act Mining districts occupation ... Agricultural leases Village - homestead special settlement associations— Deferred payment Perpetual lease Lease in perpetuity Improved-farm settlements ... Homesteads Small grazing-runs... Pastoral runs Miscellaneous leases Timber sold Thermal springs Other sources 97 27 186 75 3 6,353 1 3 13,584 0 1 31,993 0 16 16,355 3 9 1,131 1 0 220 688 25,214' 3 10 168,421 3 30 5,570 17 6 1,368 10 7 4,086 6 0 5,744 6 4 2,447 17 0 1,421 19 11 1,211 19 5 967 511 63 178,914 2 16 98,108 3 10 7,795 2 19 2 200 0 0 23 7 167 1,188 0 1 625 2 27 6,793 0 25 10 4 0 *294" 5 1 8 2 121 45 26 14 13 63 906 3 3 200 0 0 27,446 3 0 5,064 0 0 2,859 0 13 68,849 0 0 141,954 0 27 5,673 2 6 132 1 8 "'2 261 0 0 27 10 0 38 9 7 ' 1 138 233 trees 17 50,300 0 0 3,409 1 29 19,995,005 ft. 544 3 32 388 6 3 291 19 8 f791 18 3 15,774 1 9 884 6 4 1,551 8 0 183 5,273 1 38 Total areas, &c. „ timber , 448 233 trees 124,132 3 It) 19,995,005 sup. 3,121 ft. 745,289 1 25 42,036 7 4