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WHAKATOHEA DEVELOPMENT SCHEME. (See Plan 28, G-.-10.) Work done to 31st March, 1933. [ITNAHIXANUI SECTION. Contracts. —Contracts for work estimated to cost £949 165., and providing employment for eighty-nine men were authorized and subsidies amounting to £361 Is. 4d. were allotted. At the 31st March, 1933, payments on account of work done amounted to £829 Is., and subsidies paid or payable totalled £306 Is. 4d. The number of men employed was 114 —individuals 36. Contract A. 19, for scrub-cutting, was outstanding for an area of 163| acres at a cost of £114 15s. ; the subsidy payable is £55. Work. —Work was commenced on this section in the last quarter of the 1931-32 financial year, and consisted of scrub-cutting. An area of 167 acres was completed, harrowed, sown, and manured by the end of May, 1932. One unit (Rawiri Mikaere) was in occupation at the commencement of development. He had already grassed 20 acres and was milking a few cows. Thirty acres of the area cf 167 acres grassed is a part of his holding. With the exception of the scrub-cutting, all labour on this portion was done at no cost to the Scheme. Fencing (200 chains) was completed in October, and the place was then stocked with heavy cattle and sheep to control the fern. Cattle, and particularly sheep, have been kept on the block up to the end of the financial year, and valuable work was done by them in consolidating the pastures and keeping the fern in check. Two miles and a quarter of access roading was done to provide for the future development of the area adjacent. It is intended to extend the road a further three miles to connect with Motu Eoad at the Te Waiti - Waiaua Bridge and thus facilitate the delivery of materials to the units on Te Waiti Stream. This road, if metalled, would be useful in the collection of cream. Fifty chains of draining were done to render the swamp gullies safe for stock. During January of this year it was decided to extend the development of this area southwards to the extent of 220 acres, and 56f acres were scrubbed at the close of the financial year. The balance of 163J acres is shown as outstanding in the schedule of contracts hereto. A temporary store-shed was built of slabs and bush timber and roofed with railway tarpaulins. Ten tons of ensilage and 5 tons of hay were harvested of! Rawiri Mikaere's clover pasture.

Summary of Work done to 31st March, 1933, and Relative Labour Cost.

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. , ,, Number of Nature of Work. ' Labour Cost. Men Remarks. or JNumber. employed. £ s. d. Scrub-cutting .. .. .. 223\ acres 155 5 0 35 56| acres Hinahinanui Extension. , r . . . . j f 137 acres 43 0 0 24 See plan. Mixing, &c„ sowing and manuring | 3Q Free labour .. R. Mikaere. Splitting— Posts .. .. 2,000 45 0 0 4 From Torere. Battens .. .. .. 10,000 50 0 0 4 Hinahinanui Bush. Draining .. .. .. 50 chains 25 0 0 8 See plan. f 120 acres 39 0 0 2 Portion of 137 acres Harrowing .... above. I 30 acres Free labour .. R. Mikaere. | 200 chains 85 0 0 6 External and one subFencing .. .. division. 44 chains Free labour .. R. Mikaere. Roading .. .. .. 203 chains 386 16 0 31 To Hinahinanui Creek and store-shed. 829 1 0 114