FREEHOLD LAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 July 1907, Page 4

FREEHOLD LAND.

OWNEIiS AXD AREA. » IMPORTANT PARTICULARS. Some interesting statistics relating to the value aud area of freehold land in the colony were laid 011 the table of the House by the .Minister for Lands lust Friday. The returns show that last year there were 128,010 freehold owners with land of a total unimproved value of £IOO,232,247. In 1002 there were 115.713 n:, iiers ( €70,524,004), and ill 1802 there ■..-.•re '.11,301 owners ( £54,427.175). The latest return (that for last year) shows 370 owners possessing land of M unimproved value between £211,000 and £50,000 and 85 owners whose holdings range in value from £50,000 to £IOO,000; 22 owners ranging train £IOO,OOO to £200,000, while there are four owners whose estates are valued at £200,000 and over, the total value of these four estates being CI,010,02!). Another table dealing with country lands only (that is, those exclusive of land iu boroughs and townships) shows that the most numerous class of freeholders in the colony are those possessing between 100 and 200 acre each. They number 8740, their total area being 1,210,010 acres of a total unimproved value of £0,703,128.

I here are 81 owners possessing between 10,000 and 15.000 acres, 48 holding from 15.000 to 20,000, 40 with from 20.000 to 30.000, 14 with from 30.000 to 40,000, eight with 40.000 to 50,000, eight with from 50.000 to 75.000 acres, four with from 75,000 (o 100.00(1. Above this area there is one owner whose area amount to 223,243 acres of an unimproved value of £240,0-12, and a capital [value of £331,085. 'Flic above figures all relate to lands which are the freehold of companies and European individuals; lands owned by the Crown, natives, local bodies,churches, educational, and local liodies and societies not being included. The return also includes the following table of the total capital aud unimproved values of all lands (of all descriptions) in {lie enlriiiy for various .years -.iuce 187S:— I Capital Unimproved Tear Value Value 1878 .. .. £00,500,070 £02,573.808 1882 .. .. cloi.ooo.oon 1885 .... £113,270,040 _ 'BBB •• £111,137.714 £75,470.370 1801 ~ ~ £122,225,i)20 £75.487.805 1807 .. .. C 138,501.347 £84.401,244 1002 .. .. C154.51ii.132 £04,847,727 ,1000 .. .. C 215.422.552 £137.108.548