CROWN LANDS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8485, 12 July 1907, Page 3

CROWN LANDS.

The demand for Crown lands under the various tenured shows no diminu-, ition, states the annual report of the Department of Lands presented to Parliament yesterday, the number of selectors and the area selected being larger than the previous year. The new selectors total 2,250, the area taken up being 958,652 acres, or an average of 811 acres for each ordi-. nary selector of settlement lands j other than pastoral or miscellaneous j leases. Subjoined figures disclose the ; number of selectors in brackets and ; the tenures under which the several' tenants or licensees have been grant- j ed their holdings—Town lands sold . for cash (245). 255; suburban lands , sold for cash (52), 180; rural lands j sold for cash (121), 19,896; occupa- j tion with right of purchase (412), 215,529; lease in perpetuity (296), j 73,545; village settlement, cash, j (15), 19; village settlement, lease \ in perpetuity, (32), 1,012; village-j homestead special settlement (17), j 173; special settlement association, ! lease in perpetuity, (1), 4; improved! farm special settlements (46), 5,621; ' occupation leases, Mining Districts I Land Occupation Act (26), 1,043; ■ small grazing runs, (33), 73,851; pastoral runs (113), 370,388; thermal, springs, Rotorua (4), 1; miscellan-i eous leases and licenses (481), j 71,706; Cheviot Estate, cash, (16), 7; miscellaeous leases (4), 169; Land ( for Settlements Act, cash, (13), j 16; same, lease in perpetuity, (301), : (80), 691; special settlement asso-' ciations, small grazing runs, (18), 41,002; miscellaneous leases (34), 3,533. Totals (2,280), 958,652.