The Bast Coast correspondent of the New Zealand Times, in order to give that journal some idea of the unoccupied lands to the north of Hawke's Bay, and the resources that some day must be developed, quotes the following information respecting the Crown and native lands in the four East Coast counties. The figures have been obtained from official Bources, and may consequently be relied upon. The correspondent is inclined to estimate the area of native owned lands in County Wairoa at about 70,000 acres in excess of the amount stated : — Crown lands. Native lands Acres. Acres. Tauranea County 98.694 850,445 Whakatane,, ... 272,763 1,395,276 Cook „ ... 370 868 846,097 Wairoa „ ... 298,606 206 316 Total ...1,040,931 3,298,134 Considerably over a million of acres of Crown lands, no railways, few bridges, and hardly any roads worthy of the name ! Yet we are called on to pay our quota towards the cost of the " Public Works' policy!"
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3502, 27 September 1882, Page 2
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