LAND SETTLEMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4093, 21 April 1892, Page 3

LAND SETTLEMENT.

An TJnpreco&ontsd RecordEveryone who lias at heart the ( welfare of the Colony, and is anxious t to further itß progress, will (soys the 1 N.Z, Times) bo highly gratified to - learn (hat an amount of land settlement lias taken piaco during the past financial year which is, perhaps, unprecedented in tho history of the Colony in bo far na concerns the genuine, bona-fide character of those , who have gone upon the land. The ' record, at any rate, greatly exceeds thntforany other year during the last | decade, in all, 3779 persons took up land of an area of 1,728,983 acres, or an ayera'go of 45& aores each, as against, for the previous year,' 2,063 ,> persons, who acquired an area of 2,107,735 acres, or an average of : 1021 acres each, thus showing that the average holding for the past year , was much smaller than that for the preceding twelve months. If we exclude pastoral holdings, the average > for' last year will be 198 aci'es per splector, as against an average'of 249 1 acres for each selector in the previous year. We proceed to give thp main items of detail. During last year 48 Special Settlement Associations, \yith a ipeipberehip of lfil pcrpops, took up.342,000 acres, or an jivefage of 196 acres ejicb. In tlip preceding yeftr there was no land taken up'by Special Settlement Associations. The cash land disposed of last year amounted. to an atea of 48,174 acres, taken up by 518 selectors, or an average of 93 acres each. Deferred payment holdings were taken up by 221 selectors, the area being 40,862 acres, or an average of lucres each, 282,27§ qcres were taken up on perpetual lease by 818 se* • lectors, or an average of 345 aores vf 1 each. Village settlement holdings outside the cash settlement and the ordinary perpetual leaso were taken up on tho' village 1 homestead ■ system by 'the tfr'ea being 1661 acres, tj|ual ! to" Sjt) aores per spleotoi', Ono hundred and eleven p&stoFal runs witli an area of 853,420 acres were leaßed, the average being 7688 acres for each run. Small grazing runs were taken Jttu _ Jip hy J8 persons,. th 6 area being or an average of 2044 We t|iidi!rstuj)(| 'thkt which have year