Land Sales
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.") Wellington, This Daj. During the last financial year, 3770 persons took up 1,728,983 acres of laud — average 45S each or, excluding pastoral holdings, 198 a^res. Last year 2,107,735 acres were taken, but the number of selectors was only 2063. During tho yenr 48 special settlements, half in Wei- , hngton district, with a total membership of 1741, took 342,000 acres ; 518 selectors took up 48,174 acres «for cash ; deferred payment holdings to the extent of 40,362 acres were acquired by 221 persons ; SIS persons took 282,276 acres on perpetual lease ; village settlement area? amount t<> 16G1 acres; 111 pastoral runs, with area of 853,420 acres were leased ; 78 persons took small grazing runs with an area of 159,464 acres.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 126, 21 April 1892, Page 2
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123Land Sales Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 126, 21 April 1892, Page 2
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