STATISTICS RELATIVE TO ROAD DISTRICTS IN THE PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1872 Session I, G-37

G.—No. 37.

STATISTICS RELATIVE TO ROAD DISTRICTS IN THE PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.

PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 4th OCTOBER, 1871, AND ORDERED TO BE PRINTED.

WELLINGTON. 1872.

G.—No. 3f,

STATEMENT explanatory of the COUNTRY generally and ROAD DISTRICTS in the PROVINCE of TARANAKI.

ROAD DISTRICTS IN THE PROVINCE OF TARANAKI

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Number and Name of District. Character of Country. GO b'J oa g I a S ! a o ! "3 3 43 BO 1 CO « fc fl « _ J=i CD CD g'S Average Bate per Acre for last 3 years. From August, 1868, to July, 1871. Total Amount of Rates Collected for last 3 years, including Arrears. Amount of Bates Spent for last 3 years. Amount of Bates Lost Non-payment for last 3 years. Number of Bridges Required. as °H g PH P=4 £ 60 ■si 1. Bell 2. Henui 3. Lower Mangorei 4. Carrington 5. Frankley 6. Barrett 7. Hurford 8. Tataraimaka Chiefly level, nearly all open Partly wooded and hilly ... Broken generally, forest land Principally level, forest land Level tract of bush land ... Very hilly, about quarter open country Bush district, broken Four thousand acres open country, the remainder hilly bush land Chiefly open, bush portion broken ... Fine level bush district Principally forest, tolerably level All forest; rivers, streams, and gullies very numerous... All forest, about half very broken, the remainder fine level tract Partly open; high ranges and very broken inland ... Chiefly open and level land About one-third forest, level district Principally open ... Fine level open country Very little level land; high wooded ranges at the back Level district, principally forest Nearly all forest, high ridges, very broken Fine level open country 7,170 1,609 2,500 3,878 3, 845 2,850 2,148 6,000 4,460 927 2,446 3,878 3,614 2,711 2,049 5,623 395 832 I - 58 ... , 800 20J 20 5| 1 3 2 4 4i 4 6 10f 8i 4 5i 8 25 6i 7 13| 104 8 5i 19f 3id. 4d. 9d. 3fd. 4d. 2jd. 3d. 2fd. I £ s. d. 123 13 2 39 8 11 275 12 5 162 8 11 201 17 7 73 1 11 73 10 2 216 1 8 £ s. d. 148 15 2 38 5 5 274 19 1 161 13 6 201 17 9 75 7 4 73 10 2 219 10 3 ; £ s. d. 33 11 11 6 7 1 16 0 18 13 8 6 14 4 3 15 8 3 6 8 19 4 2 2 halves 2 halves 3 £ 250 150 250 £ 210 60 150 200 220 100 170 600 £ 460 60 150 350 470 100 300 600 545 ... ii| 1 130 9. Omata 10. Upper Mangorei 11. Huirangi 12. Weiweikaipo ... 3,480 3,467 5,640 2,992 3,322 5,370 110 204 10i 46 4 13 14i 20| 2|d. 3d., 2 years 4d. 93 8 3 89 6 0 273 0 3 93 11 4 76 0 0 302 18 11 7 13 6 9 "4 1 1 and 3 halves 1 and 2 halves 350 1,900 100 400 600 100 750 2,500 13. Tarurutangi 10,050 9,240 50 I I 180 30i 30i 4d. 387 10 3 382 8 7 95 11 6 8 and 2 halves 1,800 1,400 3,200 14. Xikorangi 10,150 8,193 569 960 30 30 3d. 215 1 3 179 15 8 83 18 6 5 and 4 halves 1,000 1,600 2,600 15. Oakura 16. Okato 17. Elliot 18. Clifton 19. TJremii 5,533 7,600 9,270 1,250 3,626 5,029 7,535 7,522 1,072 3,490 391 281 350 198 9 21 21f 3 15 9i 7 1 18i 28i 28| 4 15| 6d., 1 year 3d. Id., 1 year 3|d. 148 7 7 251 6 0 58 8 5 45 12 9 9 19 194 14 0 295 7 9 83 11 5 45 12 3 10 13 2 32 11 0 49 8 6 12 19 9 3 10 4 2 3 1,500 400 800 900 500 600 80 400 2,400 900 1,400 80 800 1 "400 20. Hua ... 21. Mataitawa 4,666 8,893 4,266 5,617 200 2,100 980 11 770 4j8i 19i 24 2Jd., 2 years 5d. 122 18 0 231 13 0 104 9 8 216 8 5 28 2 6 136 4 3 1 1 and 3 halves 500 700 900 1,000 1,400 1,700 22. Waitara West ... 7,050 6,080 6,261 2,259 790 ... ... 21 ... 23 3i 24i 23 2Jd. 2d., 1 year 139 10 4 16 1 6 139 9 6 13 0 0 81 7 2 2 15 3 4 1,200 11,330 1,500 100 1,500 1,300 116, 755 98,076 > 6,446 1,787 2,596 194J 189* 384 3,247 0 1 i 3,331 19 4 636 5 10 11,790 23,120 i Acres. Acres. Estimated number of acres in the Province of Taranaki ... ... ... ... ... ,,, ... 2,137,000 Estimated number of acres suitable for good agricultural settlement ... ... ... ... ... 1,400,000 Number of acres in the hands of the settlers of the Province, exclusive of the Patea District ... ... ... 116, 755 Number of acres under the management of the General Government, including Native lands and Patea District ,.. 2,020, 245 2,137,000 ElMAEKS. —Where the roads are made or proposed to be made through bush or forest country, one chain wide of the bush is cleared, and the cartway is from 15 to 20 feet wide. These bush roads are good traffic for about eight months in the year ; during the rest of the year they are more or less soft and muddy. There is an unlimited supply of stone, for macadamizing purposes, in the rivers and st for cart ;reams. traffic Peed. A. Caebinston, 11th September, 1871. Superintendent of the Province of Ti iranaki.