OUR WASTE LANDS.

Evening Star, Issue 4219, 4 September 1876, Page 4

OUR WASTE LANDS.

The waste land of the Crown disposed of up to the present time is 11,340,999 acres out of a total area of 67,117,187 acres. According to a return laid on the table of the House in the Auckland Province the total area of waste land was 17,000,000 acres, of which 2,128,225 have been disposed of, the sum realised being £412,288. Otago comes next in total area, the return setting it down at 13,257,808 acres, of which 1,795,274 have been disposed of; the receipts, not including ~ cash paid for land sold before ,sth July, 1850 (the amount of' which it, would appear could not be ascertained)' being LI, 618,668.

Canterbury’s area of waste land appears to have been 8,693,027 acres, 2,014,696 having been disposed of. The area in Wellington is stated at 7,000,000 acres, of which 1,582,902 acres have been disposed of, the receipts being L 654.340, exclusive of

receipts prior to 1850, In Taranaki the areh is 2,290,000 acres ; disposed of, 66,758 acres ; cash paid, L 34,335 17s sd. Hawke’s Bay—Totals area, acres ; disposed of, 973,868 acre?; cash paid, L 387.989 7s lOd. Nelson—Total area, 7,000,000 acres ; disposed of, 929,485 acres ; cash paid, L 416,966 3s 6d. Marlborough— Total area, 3,000,000 acres; disposed of, 887,127 acres; cash paid, L 270,319 2s 6d. Westland—Total area, 3,045,760 acres ; disposed of, 84,680 acres; cash paid, L 65,972 15s Id. , Southland—Total •irea, 2,780,592 acres; disposed of, 877,981 acres; cash price, L 826,057 Is Id. From the above it will be seen that there still remains a large quantity of landed estate yet open for settlement.