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B. —Return of Fees received under the Land Transfer Act for the Twelve Months ended the 31st March, 1900.

Note.—lncludes Crown grants and district agency fees : * £222 45.; t £364 Is. 10d.

C. —Return showing the Total Amount of Money remaining secured by Mortgage under the Land Transfer Act on the 31st March, 1900.

D. —Return showing Arreares in the Land Transfer Department on the 31st March, 1900.

Other Instruments unrecorded. Transfers. Mortgages. Miscellaneous. Wellington .. .. .. .. ..198 170 66 Canterbury .. .. .. .. .. 32 24 27 Otago .. .. .. .. .. 12 7

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District. General Pees. Assurance Pees. Total. Auckland Taranaki Wellington ... Hawke's Bay Poverty Bay Nelson Marlborough Canterbury ... Otago Southland ... Westland £ s. d. 3,665 5 7 2,167 1 7 6,360 6 1 1,136 6 8 839 9 8 602 0 6 248 11 0 5,848 10 11 2,364 2 5 1,729 9 6 242 11 0 £ s. d. 221 19 8 53 1 7 404 9 11 56 14 8 28 18 0 32 12 1 38 2 0 464 17 3 170 13 1 11 18 6 2 2 6 ' £ s. d. 3,887 5 3 2,220 3 2 6,764 16 0 1,193 1 4 868 7 8 634 12 7 286 13 0 6,313 8 2 2,534 15 6 1,741 8 0 244 13 6 Totals *25,203 14 11 1,485 9 3 26,689 4 2 Corresponding period, 1898-99... 123,625 8 5 1,248 12 9 24,874 1 2

District. Amount remaining secured by Mortgage on 31st March, 1899. Amount secured by Amount of MortMortgage during gages paid off the Year ended during the same 31st March, 1900. Period. Amount remaining secured by Mortgage on 31st March, 1900. Auckland ... Taranaki ... Wellington Hawke's Bay Poverty Bay Nelson Marlborough Canterbury Otago Southland Westland... £ s. d. 3,260,687 11 2 1,922,559 5 8 7,655,762 12 6 4,336,365 9 2 234,914 15 8 969,896 7 7 249,149 11 7 7,947,642 8 0 2,943,478 0 0 3,429,761 2 10 85,119 19 10 £ s. d. 482,663 5 2 593,352 1 11 2,693,584 0 0 501,585 17 9 221,103 8 8 110,696 10 2 58,380 18 10 1,511,084 0 0 401,226 0 0 340,000 2 11 18,631 1 11 £ s. d. 604,223 4 2 310,213 6 2 998,703 0 0 544,152 0 0 40,056 0 0 73,304 17 5 39,334 4 6 1,431,949 0 0 351,866 0 0 261,849 2 1 8,266 0 0 £ s. d. 3,139,127 12 2 2,205,698 1 5 9,350,643 12 6 4,293,799 6 11 415,962 4 4 1,007,288 0 4 268,196 5 11 8,026,777 8 0 2,992,838 0 0 3,507,912 3 8 95,485 1 9 Totals 33,035,337 4 0 6,932,307 7 4 |4,663,916 14 4 135,303,727 17 0 Corresponding period, 1898-99 32,152,388 0 7 5,126,707 5 7 4,087,240 5 0 133,035,337 4 0

District. Applications awaiting Compliance with Requisitions. Applications detained for Examination in the Survey Office. Applications (other than those already mentioned) received during the Month and not yet passed. Unregistered Instruments awaiting Compliance with Requisitions. Unregistered Instruments detained in the Survey Office. Certificates of Title due but not issued. Applications received previous to Current Month not yet passed. Auckland taranaki Vellington ... lawke's Bay... 'overty Bay ... kelson Marlborough... Canterbury ... )tago buthland Vestland 42 39 9 6 5 21 3 7 1 1 3 84 7 1 5 8 i 15 137 4 1 1 26 15 1 2 4 1 40 11 "i 4 119 17 2 1 61 Totals ... 143 26 1.4 146 80 296