NATIVE LAND QUESTION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1865, 20 September 1906, Page 3

NATIVE LAND QUESTION

AN INTERESTING RETURN.

(Special to Gisborne Times.)

Wellington, last night. Tho roturn tiskc-d for by sbo Hon. J. D, Ounond, showing tho area of na'ive land in tho North Islaod thai is uDpioduotive. hss now been printed and circulated, tbo bare summary of whioh was published some timo ago. The areas are as follows: Auckland-4 0C6,670 aores productive, 1,115,087 acres unproductive, Auckland includes about 225,300 ecros of barren and useless land. Hawks’s 8ay—1,420,295 acres produo 1 tive, 472 592 unproductive. Taranaki—6B7,s49 aores productive, 482,710 aores unproductive.

Wellington—l,36s 088 acres productive,. 800 329 aorrs unproductive. The total areas are—7 479,602 acres of produotivo land and 2,870.718 ac os unproduo ive. The summarised figures r.garding the blocks over 1000 acres show tho folkwing results: — Aucklond —8,7.68 897 acre?, of which 1,571,474 acres aro under forest. There aro 58,023 native owners. Hawke ! s 8ay—1.103,316 aore?, of which 762.781 acrtß oro unproductive. There

are 24,956 owner?. Taranaki 96,192 acres are open ana 399,018 acres of bush. Tho resident population is 289 tc 3QC native?, and there are 8722 native owners. Of the wbolo area 12,500 acres are productive and 482,700 ncp.oduotivp There aro 15,C00 aores suitable for saw milling. Wellington—l,so6,774 ac.es, of whicl 231,700 acres aro milling timber. Ther are 10,869 owners.