LAND TRANSACTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 249, 14 October 1908, Page 2

LAND TRANSACTIONS.

The annual report of tile Lands Transfer and Deeds Registration Department is always an interesting document for those who care to analyse the figures contained therein. The* tabulated' figures. like most of the other departmental returns, give the most meagre details, sufficient only to comply with the requirements of law. The Mercantile (.'azctt-e has made it its business to extract all the informal ion possible, and by comparison with previous rears there is consider:!M,. value in the returns. Tlie number of transfers registered during the year ended Maivli 31st, 1008 was 21.701. and this compares with previous years as under:— •Maroll 31. Number. 1905 jn,423 ln <»« 17,04."> 1W 18.388 1008 ai.'nu It will thus be seen that in the past financial year there had been considerable activity in real estate. The total areas involved in these transactions oonipare as under:— Town and Suburban Country Acres. .'teres. 1005 r,..-,57 1,449.548 ! IMfi 0.340 2.050.483 I (1.1153 2.709.539 IfO R 0.078 2.939.491 Of tlie 0.078 acres 0!' town and suburban property. Wellington District accounts for acres, Auckland District for 1.140-y, acres. Canterbury accounts for 870 acres, anil Otago fur i337|a acres. The country or fanning lands are the more interesting, and (Hi* areas transferred in. the past year compared with those For tile present year 1 in each of Ihe following districts compare as under:— District. Acres. Acres. Auckland 443.21 1 809.405 , Taranaki 83.011 211,527 ( Wellington llS.tir.il 034 388 llawke's Tiny l!10.!i:!4 211 128 '