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Summary of Selectors, Residences, and the Condition of Estates acquired and dealt with at the 31st March, 1903.

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Land District and Name of R„,„, t - ra Besi- Progress during Settlement. Selectors. denee9 . year. Pursuits of Settlers. Present Position. Prospects. Auckland— Opouriao Okauia 64 9 64 7 Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Dairying and cropping .. ' Dairying Good Not satisfactory Prosperous .. Good Good. Fair. Rangiatea Karapiro 19 16 17 11 Good Fair Only recently s Dairying and general farming Farming and dairying .. selected Good. Fencourt Whitehall Cradock Hamlet 36 8 3 34 9 Prosperous .. Fairly good .. Not satisfacfactory. Ditto. Hetana Kitchener Hamlet Methuen Piumer „ Hawke's Bay— Raureka 7 1 7 3 6 "3 19 18 Good Dairying, farming, fruitgrowing, &c. Pastoral Dairying Good Good. Elsthorpe Waimarie Pouparae Tomoana 46 18 9 13 27 16 9 12 Dairying and fruit-grow-ing Dairying and farming .. Mahora Willows Hatuma 32 22 62 25 17 53 Fair Good Satisfactory Grazing and mixed farming Grazing Dairying and grazing .. Manga-a-toro .. Kumeroa Forest Gate .. Taranaki— Tokaora Wellington— Paparangi 25 14 28 15 18 10 18 13 Good Dairy-farming 36 35 Satisfactory Good Satisfactory Dairying, poultry-farm-ing, &c. Dairying, cropping, &c. Dairying Dairying and market-gar-dening Mixed farming and pastoral Dairying and sheepfarming Gardening, poultry-farm-ing, &e. Ditto Dairying and grazing .. Ohakea Te Matua Aorangi 15 13 37 15 12 37 Langdale 23 17 Mangawhata .. 7 7 Epuni Hamlet 41 32 Maungaraki .. Linton Marlborough— Blind River .. Omaka Puhipuhi Starborough .. 20 5 12 4 19 13 2 109 17 12 1 64 Fair Good Fair Satisfactory Only selected ii Fair Sheep-farming Sheep-farming and cropping Sheep-farming in March, 1903. Sheep-farming Fair Fair. Good. Richmond Brook North Bank .. Waipapa Westland — Poerua 11 10 4 9 1 3 Fair Fair. 18 14 Good Dairying and mixed farming Ditto Very good .. Good. Kokatahi Canterbury— Pareora Studholme Junction Kapua 3 28 4 11 3 28 3 12 Satisfactory Grazing Mixed farming Agriculture Good Well e s t a - Wished Ditto Rosebrook Otaio 14 9 13 9 Poor Dairying and cropping.. Mixed farming, fruitgrowing, &c. Grazing Patoa The Peaks Roimata 4 12 26 2 . Fair Fair. 26 Good Satisfactory Gardening and fruitgrowing Mixed farming Market-gardening u • • Very prosperous Satisfactory Well e s t ablished Satisfactory Good. Kereta Braco 4 14 4 14 Epworth Ashley Gorge .. Omihi Valley .. Orakipaoa Highbank Otarakaro Wharenui 2 10 1 27 75 7 26 1 12 20 57 7 26 Mixed farming Dairying Let temporarily. Mixed farming Good Good. Small-farming and gardening