DEFERRED PAYMENT LANDS.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 460, 20 September 1879, Page 2

DEFERRED PAYMENT LANDS.

We are indebted to C. D. Whitcombo,Esq., Commissioner Crown Lands, New Plymouth, for the following report, which has been presented to the Taranaki Waste Lands Board : “ New Plymouth, Sep. 1, 1879. “ I have the honor to forward my second report on the portion on the Moa Block offered for sale on deferred payments on the 19th June, 1875. The report is accompanied by a plan of the district, and by schedules showing improvements made both on deferred payment lands and on lands sold for cask within the portion of the district referred to. The clearings made on the deferred £>uyiriont. LaVO 111 tllO llllgC’ majority of oases been well done. Intwo cases only—viz., on allotments 112 and 114—have more trees been left uh-' felled than should have been done ; but the road On which these allotments are' situate being one of the worst in the' district, some excuse may be made for" the holders of the laud. With the exception of two cases, all the holders of deferred payment allotments have made" ample improvements, and these two 1 have come so near the required amount that little objection can be made to them The total area of land syjd on deferred payments on the portion I now report' on is 2057 acres. Of this, 518 acres’ have been cleared and grassed, or equal to 25 per cent, of the whole ; the total value of improvements in clearing,building, and fencing being £2363.Within the same portion of the district 5608 acres have been sold for cash, of which 961 acres have been cleared and grassed, or equal to 17 per cent,; the' value of improvements, including clcaring, being £7021; the total value of improvements on deferred payment and cash lands new reported on being £9384. In the portion of the Moa District reported on in May last, the improvements’ made to that time were estimated at £7511. Since that time, and up to the' present, quite £ISOO has been spent inbuilding, fencing, and’ felling. These amounts, added to the estimate of the' block I now report on— viz., £9384 give a total of £18,435 as the value of improvements made on the portion of the Moa Block sold in 1875. These improvements, made within four years, in a district consisting entirely of bush lands (the timber being of the heaviest description), the roads being almost impassable for at least six months in the year, reflect great credit on the settlers district, and give promise that idWlTe' future this will become one of the most prosperous districts in the colony. It also speaks forcibly for the advantages of the deferred payments system, that in the large majority of cases the deferred payment allotments are held by laboring men (more than half of them immigrants,brought here during the past four years), who commenced improving their allotments in ad vance of the cash purchasers, and who in the majority of cases were the first to occupy their lands by actual residence. “ G. F. Ronixsox, Ranger.”

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