CROWN LANDS GUIDE.
We have received frohi the Secre'l ary< : fo ( r Crown Lands, a copy,, of the new Cro\vn Lands Gu ide/ : puiiU«lied by the authority of the Min'ist'eV of L.auds, It contains the most elaborateinformatiou 1 for intending gettlevsv^pectiqg the' lands available for 6ocnp.ut'ion by nil the various methods prescribed iiri<ler_ our- ' land laws, whether -' undor- the deferred payment, agricultural lease, perpetual lease,' ; or jiqmestead y systems. It appears that " the totafarea of New p ew, Zealand is iip wards 9^(^4,000^000 acres 0^4^.14,000,090,^6 been f sold or disposed of ih educktion and other public "' ! resevveli ; 1 6,000,000 belongs to- the abori^ihevdr; to Europeans who have* purchased from them'; and 34,000,000 pt'iCcown lands still remain for disposal. Of the latter i 15,000,000 are open grass or fern iiotptry, 10,000*000 fores v and 9,000,000 of barren mountain tops, lakes, and worthless country, i J '-, -,/■'> il. ;
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 50, 28 January 1884, Page 2
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145CROWN LANDS GUIDE. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 50, 28 January 1884, Page 2
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