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Murchison Domain Sections Nos. 18 and 20 (Square 170), Town of Murchison. Area, 27 acres 2 roods. Work done during year : Two acres stumped, cleared, ploughed, and sown down. Improvements now on domain : Fencing, felling, grassing, stumping, and clearing. Used for sports and picnics. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Further stumping and clearing. Nelson Domain. Situated in City of Nelson. Area, 21 acres 3 roods 5 perches. Improvements now on domain : Fences and planting. Used for general recreation. Ebbpton Domain. Section No. 189, Block IX, Reefton Survey District. Area, 58 acres 2 roods 39 perches. Used chiefly for picnics. Leased for grazing. Wai-iti Domain. Section No. 156, Block XV, Wai-iti Survey District. Area, 5 acres. Work done during year : New fence erected on recently surveyed boundary, and a number of trees planted and protected with wire netting. Improvements now on domain : Fences, levelling, trees, shrubs, stumping, and clearing. Used for picnics and general recreation. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Replacing dead trees. Wakbfield Domain. Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block XVI, Wai-iti Survey District. Area, 5 acres 1 rood 36-8 perches. This domain originally comprised Sections Nos. 85, Block XII, and 79b, Block XVI, Wai-iti Survey District, containing 81 acres 1 rood 8 perches. Section 32 of " The Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1907," authorised the sale of this area, and the present domain was purchased in lieu thereof. Improvements now on domain : Fencing, buildings, cricket-pitch, well, cycle-track, and levelling. Used for sports, picnics, football, cricket, and general recreation. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Building small bridge, planting trees, and levelling ground. Portion of the material for the bridge, and the trees, have been promised, and the levelling is to be carried out by the football club. Wangapeka Domain. Section No. .31, Block XV, Wangapeka Survey District. Area, 13 acres 1 rood 33 perches. No works have been undertaken on this domain. Westport (1) Domain. Sections Nos. 1020, 1021, and 1022, Town of Westport. Area, 38 acres 1 rood 6 perches. Work done during year : Hedges trimmed ; fences, drains, and water-supply repaired ; gates erected; and approach formed. Improvements now on domain: Fences, drains, band-rotunda, and planting. Used as a promenade and pleasure resort; also for general recreation. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Asphalting and extending paths, trimming hedges and planting others, and forming fish pond and hatchery. Westport (2) Domain. Sections Nos. 986 and 987 (Victoria Square), Town of Westport, 103 and 104, Block VII, Kawatiri Survey District, and 12 acres 2 roods 30 perches., in the Town of Westport, known as the Beach Reserve. Area, 114 acres 1 rood 2 perches. During the year Victoria Square, which comprised sour clay, was broken up, about 500 loads of loam carted and ploughed in, and the area sown down in oats after stumps had been removed. The oat-crop was ploughed in, and after further dressing the ground will be sown down in grass. Tenniscourts have been top-dressed and generally improved. A permanent caretaker is employed, who devotes his attention to tending ornamental trees and flowers, and generally improving the domain. During the year a number of seats were received from townspeople for use in the square. Improvements now on domain : Fences, grandstand, tennis-pavilion, tracks, walks, ornamental trees and shrubs, clearing, felling, and draining. Used for football, cricket, tennis, and general recreation. Thirty-seven acres leased. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Planting ornamental trees, laying out flower-beds and grass-plots, painting grandstand and fences, and planting and fencing the Beach Reserve. It is also proposed to erect swimming-baths on the domain.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT. Beownlee Domain. Sections Nos. 68, 69, and 70, Town of Havelock. Area, 2 acres and 29, perches. Work done during year : Pavilion, outbuildings, and gate erected, filling-in work done, and general maintenance. Improvements now on domain : Fences, drains, plantation, levelling, clearing, pavilion, outbuildings, and gate. Used for sports, tennis, hockey, cricket, football, and genera] recreation. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Filling-in and levelling ground.