LAND SETTLEMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9126, 27 June 1908, Page 3

LAND SETTLEMENT.

REVENUE IN WELLINGTON DISTRICT. The rapid progress of settlement in "Wellington province is well exemplified by the details now available 01 tfchd territorial revenue received from tiyv Wellington land district during tt-ffyinancial year juat ended. There ha 3 baen an increase of £25,293, the te;al revenue'having been £97,262 Bi. This big improvement on the pr.vious year's figures, is mainly due to further land being made available for settlement. The biggest Items aire £9,352 derived from cash sales of Crown ilands, and £19,232 paid by 'O.R.P. tenant3Who took opportunity of exercising their option pf ac'quiring the freehold. A large number of occupation with right of purchase tenancies in Wellington land district have nbw been held ten yeaiM, thus enabling holders to exertcise their power of purchase. Petaib of the revenue are as follow; • ORDINARY CROWN LAND. £ , CAih sal 69 . 9,352 Perpetual leases made freehold 2,690 W.R. P. made freehold 19,232 Deferred payment, rural 5 I'erpetaal lease and snail areas 1 206 ©. ft. P. with right of purchase 10,761 [■jsajti in perpetuity 5,377 | iawdble lease 5 Village settlement, cash 4 . Village settlement, lease in perpetuity 1,719 Vilhje homestead, special settlement 414 , Social settlement assn., leasa s%in parpetuity 4,927 tt#>roved farm, special settle- ▼ inent 2,235 Small grazing run 3 1,975 lPd3toral runs 2,436 "Clause 18, sub-sec. 7, Land Act, 1907, (proportion of 90 per cant, capital value,) 111 Timber licenses, other leases and sales ■ , , 10 Improvements on unimproved fa,rms 1,047 Miscellanaous leases 528 Transfer, lease, and license fees 510 Rents of reserves 743 Miscellaneous 4,310 Crown grant fee 3 180 State forests _ 173 Survey liens on nativolands 4,760 .Improved farms mad 3 freehold 1,632 Total £75,446 2L&ND FOR SETTLEMENTS.

iLeaae in perpetuity tenure 13,276 ■ • grazing runs 1,732 JMißcelflaneoua, 5,356 Total £20,364 \Workertf' dwellings 60S *" : Enaowments 22a . .Native Township Act, 1895 614 Grand total £97,262 It will be noticed that prictically HL-no revenue has been received under HR«.tbe renewable Jaasa tenure adopted last session. The reason for this is that the measure did not pais until if • November 20th, and regulations had t to bo drawn up and ■other preliminaries arranged before land could bb made available under the new lease. Thus it wa3 not until the end of the financial year, that the new system earrie fully into oper.ation.