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Table A. —Number of Properties considered during Year ended 31st March, 1942.

Table B. —Summary of Private Estates acquired to 31st March, 1942.

Table C. —Return of Private Land purchased and paid for during Period from 1st April, 1941, to 31st March, 1942.

Annual Accounts. A statement of the moneys received into and paid out of the Land for Settlements Account during the year is included in parliamentary paper 8.-l [Part IV].

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Number Number , . „. of Total area , , , v . . . . of Total area Land District. Properties offered. Land Diet™*. PrO p ert ies offered. offered. offered. North Auckland .. 7 6,011 'Canterbury .. .. 8 4,546 Auckland .. .. 4 7,508 Otago .. .. 2 2,310 Wellington .. .. 6 3,684 Southland .. .. 3 2,958 Totals .. 30 27,017 Note. —Offers which were obviously unsuitable were not referred to the Board.

Land District. Number. Area. Purchase-money. Acres. £ North Auckland .. .. 56 51,845 480,682 Auckland .. .. .. 82 391,083 1,310,982 Gisborne .. .. .. 26 86,380 790,131 Hawkc'sBay .. .. .. 59 264,783 1,714,292 Taranaki .. .. .. 27 31,959 376,031 Wellington .. .. .. 158 160,971 2,351,238 Marlborough .. .. .. 23 234,591 756,482 Nelson .. .. .. 14 48,821 150,473 Westland .. .. .. 3 6,032 14,062 Canterbury .. .. .. 195 463,461 3,592,100 Otago .. ... .. 82 336,803 2,036,023 Southland .. .. .. 35 96,609 534,780 i Totals .. .. 760 2,173,338 14,107,276

Name .oiOwner. Locality. jJSSStSSp. Ar »- "S"' A. E. P. £ S. d. Mrs. M. Stillborn .. .. Whakataki .. By agreement 125 1 28 600 0 0 K. J. Mulligan .. .. Valetta-Tinwald „ 653 3 18 2,500 0 0 Church Property Trustees .. Woodbury . . „ 0 2 00 5 0 0 State Advances Corporation, as St. Andrews . . „ 131. I 32 720 0 0 mortgagee in possession State Advances Corporation, as Waimate .. ,, 130 3 00 522 5 0 mortgagee in possession Lake County Council .. Lake Wakatipu ,, 0 0 12 5 0 0 Totals .. .. .. .. 1,042 0 10 4,352 5 0