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1899. NEW ZEALAND.

"GOVERNMENT LOANS TO LOCAL BODIES ACT, 1891" (REPORTS OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL UNDER SECTION 3 AND REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION 4 OF THE).

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the Bth August, 1599. Ordered " That there be laid before this House a return setting out the reports of the Surveyor-General under section 3 of ''The Government Loans to Looal Bodies Act, 1891,' together with the regulations under seotion 4 of such Act, in respect of the several settlement blocks wholly or in part sitoale within tire Patea electorate."— {Mr. G. Hutchison.) '

Return setting out Reports of the Surveyor-General in respect of the Several Settlement Blocks wholly or in part situate within the Patea Electorate.

Year. Name of Block. Area. Surve i Valuation! of Block. ] yor-General's Report. Works Estimated Cost " ' to be borrowed. 1891-92 Mangainingi W aim arin o Acres. 6,000 20,000 £ 9,040 16,880 Roads £ 4,286 7,837 1892-93 Kaimanuka 9,987 5,350 2,665 1893-94 Omahine, Block I. Opaku-Kapara ... 455 18,620 . 341 10,405 i 114 2,793 1894-95 Kaitangiwhenua Special Settlement Momohaki Village Settlement Palmerston North Knights of Labour Pohonuiatane Sommerville Wanganui ... ... . ••• 11,000 824 10,995 28,000 8,i566 6,222 6,600 6,311 12,222 28,000 9,085 . 6,046 i 1,375 1,360 2,749 600 2,142 1,556 I 1895-96 Clifton No. 1 ... Kaitangiwhenua No. 2 ... .:. Kaitieke Manganui and Ruapehu ... Rangiwhakaoma 4,650 46,045 45,500 7,350 13,650 4,081 27,627 41,700 6,337 5,487 I I 1,163 5,765 11,375 1,838 1,707 ' I 1896-97 Gladstone Rawhitiroa Te Ngaue Whenuakura 7,597 32,746 1,470 11,000 5,822 8,186 1,286 6,600 I I I 1,899 2,-046 367 1,338 [ 1897-98 Moeawatea Mokotuku, Block III. Marton No. 3 ... 11,000 1,550 8,816 6,243 1,768 7,788 1,560 388 2,204 16th An ;ust, 1899. A. Babbon, UnderSecretary.