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" The area completed on the main scheme is ready for ploughing, which will be gone on with during the next season. The area on the section holders is on nine diflerent sections and will be ploughed and sown in grass next spring. " Ploughing and working up land : Waipapa Main Scheme, 130 acres ; Section 9, 60 acres . total, 190 acres. This was all completed and sown in grass in March. " Grassing : Waipapa Main Scheme, 130 acres ; Section 9, 60 acres : total, 190 acres. All sown in March, and is a very good strike. " Topdressing : Waipapa Main Scheme, 40 acres. This was done with manure that was in store ; the balance will come into next season, as the manure had not arrived at the 31st March. " Draining : Waipapa Main Scheme—l6o chains were completed on the Waipapa Swamp, the drains opening into the Tokaanu Stream. « Fencing : Waipapa Main Scheme—l6o chains—about half of this fencing was for shelter-belts, the balance subdivision fences. « Post, strainer, and batten splitting : 6,000 posts, 200 strainers, 18,000 battens. These were delivered at the homestead, and will be used for both the main scheme and the section holders. " Stock : 254 bullocks, 48 cows, 672 breeding ewes, 14 rams. The scheme will not winter all this stock. It is intended to transfer the bullocks and winter the cows and sheep." Combining the accounts of the Native Trust Office with those of the Department, the stock purchased for this scheme was as follows : Cattle —260 bullocks, 28 cows, 27 heifers (315), £1,040. Sheep —1,255 wethers, 677 ewes, 14 rams (1,946), £1,030 : total, £2,070. Sales were : 2 heifers, £8 ; sheep, 1,164, £699. Among the sheep purchased were 677 ewes and 14 rams which were wintered on the block. Most of the bullocks were transferred from schemes in the Rotorua district for the purpose of consolidating the new pastures and keeping the country clean. The policy of subdivision and the nature of the stocking of this scheme will depend on the prospects of the dairy industry of the Dominion. Until these are stabilized at a reasonably remunerative level it would appear to be sound policy to graze sheep and bullocks rather than to launch a programme of dairy-f arming. The further development of the Tokaanu lands will provide work and sustenance for the families now in occupation, and there is a large scope of country to be brought m. la. Ngatiawa Scheme. The expenditure on development work on this scheme to the 31st March, 1933, amounted to £14,429, reduced by unemployment subsidies and other receipts to £12,900. The cost of land purchases amounted to £9,827. A topographical survey has been made to show the extent of the clearings, fencing, and other improvements on the scheme as at the 31st March, 1933, from which the following details have been compiled : —- Clearing and grassing— Area scrubbed and sown to 31st March, 1932 (Eivers, Tunanui, Acres. Acres. Ohope) .. •• ■■ •• •• Area ploughed and sown (Tunanui) to 31st March, 1932 .. 4otj Area old grass and cultivation to 31st March, 1932 .. .. 95^ Area scrubbed and sown, 1932-33 .. .. • • • • 6$ 2 1,966 Area (Buddie's) scrubbed and sown, 1932-33 .. . ■ 204J Area (Buddie's) ploughed only, 1932-33 .. .. • • 30 no 4:^ Area (Hillcrest) scrubbed, ploughed, and sown, 1932-33 .. 128 Area scrubbed and ploughed, 1932-33 (not sown) .. .. 58 100 2,386J • „ Chains. Chains. Fencing— Eivers, Tunanui, Ohope .. .. •• •• •• Buddie's 230 HiU ™ Bt — 1,935 Draining— Eivers, Tunanui, Ohope .. .. .. •• •• ™ Buddie's •• J» Hillcrest 248 1,066 Eoad formation (deviation Ohope Beach sections access Road) .. •• 45

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