REPORT UPON THE CROWN LANDS DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30th JUNE, 1878.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1878 Session I, C-01

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1878. NEW ZEALAND. REPORT UPON THE CROWN LANDS DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30th JUNE, 1878.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency. The Secretary for Crown Lands to the Hon. Minister of Lands. Sib, — General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 16th August, 1878. I have the honor to forward the annual returns of the Crown Lands Department for the twelve months ended 30th June, 1878. From table No. 1, it will be seen that since the foundation of the Colony up to 30th June, 13,090,590 acres have been sold or otherwise disposed of, the total cash received being £10,450,228. The total area open for selection on same date, was 14,892,486 acres, and there was also a further area for disposal of 19,876,847 acres, but presently withheld by Land Boards, or held under lease. And there* is the native territory and lands sold by Natives to Europeans, of about 16,500,000 acres. The total area of the Colony being over 64 million acres. Table No. 2, shows that for the twelve months there have been sold of— A. R. P. Purchases. T«wn Lands 467 117 to 969 1 Cash Received. Scrip. Rub r ai rban::: ::: ::: 82 8 2;3 036 1 ll ;; 5 ,11i\ *»**» «» *»w» « • Of this, Canterbury Provincial District represents no less than 554,169 acres rural, sold to 4,151 purchasers and 95 acres of town lands sold to 377 purchasers, realising a total of £1,123,823 Bs. 3d. or, if stated fractionally, seven-tenths the area sold, nearly seven-tenths the number of purchasers, and nearly eight-tenths the cash realised for the whole Colony. The more immediate causes of this are : the Crown Lands in this district all open for selection ; the extension of the Railway system over the plains ; the bridging of the large rivers, and practically their annihilation as obstacles to traffic, and the arable lands brought either actually or in prospect within easy reach of a railway station These facilities and the remarkable advances which have been made lately in Agricultural machinery—the double-furrow plough and the reaping machine—have converted the level grassy plains, which a few years ago seemed destined for ever to graze sheep, into wheat fields for the London market. In Otago Provincial District where the area of Crown Lands is double what it is in Canterbury, and where the demand for land is equally great, there have only been sold of— A. R. P. Purchases. Town Lands 175 06 to 1911 Cash Eeceived . g • K ban... ::. :.: 11l ;; m \ *™>™ » « «w*?" > The difference from Canterbury is mainly due to the fact that the Crown Lands in Otago are either under pastoral lease, or withheld as Railway and other Public Reserves. A few of the leases begin to tall in, and they will almost all have done so in March, 1883. There are about six million acres so held. After deducting Education and University Endowments, there will be fully five million acres to dispose of. The general character of this country is mountainous, intersected by numerous long narrow valleys and a few considerable plains. The elevation of the valleys and plains is from 300 to 2,000 feet above sea level, and from these the mountain slopes, run up to elevations of from 3,000 to 8,000 feet. Up to 5,000 feet the country is well grassed, and is admirably adapted for pastoral purposes. But as a large proportion is purely summer country, it is only valuable when associated with low-lying ground on which to winterstock. It therefore becomes absolutely necessary in dealing with proposals for its future disposal, to keep this prominently in view, otherwise it must happen that if the low ground is parted with, it will be impossible for any occupation of the high ground to take place, except by those who have possessed themselves of the valleys. At present, this country feeds about two million sheep, and the annual assessment is nearly £60,000. If re-let in areas properly selected, it would fetch at least double, or possibly £150,000 per annum.

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In Southland the area of Crown Lands open for selection, is over a million acres. It is mostly the Lilly and back-lying portions of the runs which are leased at 2d. per acre, subject to the right of free selection. Under this system the extensive inland plains were taken up in large purchases, principally at 20s. per acre. The frontages being secured to the rivers and plains, there was no necessity on the part of the large freeholders to purchase the back country, and now that it is so much afflicted with the rabbit pest and tho price has been increased to £2 per acre, there is still less inducement. The sale of this country is likely to be very tardy. The forests in Southland, as also in Otago, are not opened by the Land Boards for sale until they have been cut over by the saw-millers and woodmen, who pay either royalties, rents, or license fees, for their privileges. In Nelson, Malborough, and Westland, the other three land districts of the Middle Island, the land :sales are very small, the aggregate for the three being only 11,935 acres, realising £8651. In the Nelson district, there is an area of nearly 6,000,000 acres, over which selection may be made. But as this country is mountainous with many of the valleys and sides of hills forest-clad, it does not attract settlers who can purchase on immediate payment the open grassy lands of more favoured districts. There was for many years, and up to 1878, a system of leasing in vogue in this land district, by means of which a selection of land up to 10,000 acres could be held on payment of 5 per cent, of its assessed value at date of application, with a pre-emptive right to purchase at any time during the currency of the 14 years' lease, at a price per acre, to be fixed by the Land Boards in accordance with the law in force at the time of purchase. The Commissioner points out that the Land Sales Act of 1877, by raising the minimum price of land to 20s. per acre, will bear heavily on a considerable number of lessees who took up poor land, relying on the Board continuing to have the power to fix the price at 10s., or even less, per acre. About three hundred ii(300) lessees holding an aggregate area of over four hundred thousand (400,000) acres are so affected. Another system ot lease, or more properly speaking a deferred payment system without residential or improvement clauses, was and is still in force ; by means of it the applicant gets the land for a term of fourteen years at an annual rental of 10 per cent, on the declared value of the land for sale. At the end of the term, or at any time before, on payment in one sum of the balance of the total amount of the fourteen annual payments, he becomes entitled to the Crown Grant of Land. The only restriction on this system is that no greater quantity than 320 acres shall be leased to any one person. These very easy terms of payment encourage settlement in bush districts, and in localities where the land is poor. But it need not be disguised that they also lead to the land being taken up in advance of the real settler, and its being held as a mere speculation. There ought at least to have been an improvement clause. This would not have hindered one iota the real settler, while it would have deterred the speculator, or compelled him to improve the land. The increase in price, co-operating with the fact that former selections have pretty well monopolised the choice spots and frontages along roads and rivers, has very materially diminished the number of applications since the Ist January, and it is quite certain that but few applications will be made during the current year. In Marlborough, there is an area of about a million acres open for selection. It is the hilly and mountainous part of the district, and as the plains and low-lying country which skirt it, have been purchased years ago, there is no inducement for anyone, not already possessing land contiguous, to make selection. Under these circumstances, the price of land fixed last session, renders the possession of the back country quite secure to the present lessees, whose term expires in 1882, with right of renewal for fourteen years at double rental. The present rental is about Id. per acre. So that it is much more advantageous for the lessees to pay rent than to buy the land, even although the price were only 2s. or 3s. per acre. The only part of the Marlborough district where a little settlement is taking place, is in the valleys, and around the margin of the Sounds. But the country being all bush, the progress is very slow. Westland, and that part of Nelson known as the South West Gold Fields, form together one longnarrow strip of country along the West coast, covered for the most part with dense forest, intersected by numerous large rapid rivers, which are sustained in volume by the very humid climate which there prevails. The occupation and cultivation of the soil under these and other natural obstacles, necessarily proceeds but slowly, and settlement is very secondary to tho mining interests, which are the staple of the West Coast. The North Island is divided into the four land districts of Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington. The absolute sales in these are— a. r. p. Purchases. Town Lands 108 316 to 224 ~» „ ,Wa . , _ . o v i coi noa /i- t Cash Received. scrip. Ruu b r a . rban ::: ::: ::: mS 1 1 ;; £j £121 >91010 6 £^6 2 4 The average price of £2 7s. per acre for rural land in Auckland, is due to the high prices realised for the sale of the Patutahi Block, Poverty Bay District. The area under the administration of these four Land Boards, aggregates five million acres. A large proportion of this is forest land, and it is the usual practice not to open land for selection until after BUrrey. At present there are upwards of 40,000 acres in Auckland District, and a similar area in Wellington District surveyed and ready for selection, but withheld by the Land Boards in expectation of roads or tracks being formed to open up the Blocks. Table No. 3—Refers to the disposal of land on settlement conditions. These are; the Homestead Deferred Payment, and Agricultural Lease systems. The Homestead system is only in operation in Auckland, where 57 approved applications absorbed 11,000 acres for the twelve months. The settler under this system makes no payment for the land, the only cost to him being the expense of survey. On the fulfilment of conditions, which are five years residence, and the cultivation of one-third of the selection, if open land, and one-fifth, if bush land, the Crown Grant is issued, and the selector may then proceed to make another selection. Regarding this, the Land Board recommends " that a provision similar in its effect to the one inserted under the Deferred Payment system, to prevent a person obtaining more than one selection, should also be introduced in relation to the Homestead system. At present it is open to a person who has already acquired land under

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the latter system, to take up a further area at the end of his term of occupation notwithstanding that the greater portion of his former selection may at the time be uncultivated and unimproved. This is a privilege which it is to be feared is open to much abuse, and should, it is thought, be discountenanced." Westland is the only other land district in which the Homestead system may be ajjplied, but as yet the Land Board have not set apart Blocks for selection. On the Deferred Payment system there have been during the twelve months, 1656 applications made and 405 approved, covering a total area of 60,249 acres. In Taranaki, 70 applications have taken up 7,193 acres. The Commissioner points out that this is less than, 131 applications, and 11,211 acres, the business for the previous year, and the falling off he says " is to be attributed to the extremely high terms imposed on licensees under the ' Land Act, 1877.' These terms, though perhaps not pressing too heavily on occupiers of open land, are yet all but prohibitory to intending settlers in forest districts" ; as a proof of this, he reports that no section wholly covered with bush has been taken up under the Land Act, 1877. The other successful applications, on the Deferred Payment system, viz:—33s covering 53,056 acres, were all in Otago and Southland. By the Land Act, 1877, the Deferred Payment system was legalised for the whole Colony. As yet it has had no application in Auckland, Malborough, or Canterbury, but as it is soon to be tried in one or more of these districts, it will be worth while to review shortly its working and results in Otago —the Provincial District in which it has had most development. It was first brought into operation in 1873, and in its inception was meant as a boon and encouragement to families who had not the money wherewith to buy land, but had the labour and the will to cultivate it, and the management to make the land pay for itself. At first the price was fixed at 255. per acre, payable in twenty half-yearly payments of Is. 3d. per acre, or, at the option of the selector, six such half-yearly payments with the balance of 17s. 6d. at the end of the three years. In the case of two or more applicants making selection of the same piece of land, it was decided by ballot who should have it. The conditions of residence and improvement were nearly the same then as now. As there was a great demand for land on these terms, the choice sections were invariably over applied for, and the obtaining of land became so much a lottery, that many instances occurred of persons incurring the expense time after time of making long journeys to examine and select land without ever having the luck to draw successfully. It was also noticeable that this element of chance and uncertainty was very distasteful to many suitable persons who did not apply at all. In 1875, the ballot was superseded by the auction system, so that under it there is the certainty of a selector getting his choice, provided he bids the highest The introduction of the auction system, has no doubt been a partial departure from the original principle of helping the man of small means to a farm. For the land, wherever suitable for farming, is now so keenly sought after, that the Commissioner reports it fetches from £3 to £10 per acre, that is, twenty half-yearly payments of 3s. or 10s. per acre before the land is Crown Granted, or as the law now stands, the option of twelve half-yearly payments with the balance at the end of the six years. Of course, no one can pay the higher price unless there is considerable capital at once available to cultivate and improve the land. The residence and improvement clauses, and the restriction of the area within the limit of 320 acres, most effectually prevent anyone from buying up the Crown Lands in large estates. In the system as now in force, the Government just take the same position with regard to the Crown Lands that large proprietors do when they subdivide their estates, and as an inducement to buyers offer to receive payment by instalments. The system has been largely availed of by pushing labouring men and by small settlers from the early settled districts, who have sent forth their sons and daughters, and in some instances have sold out and gone themselves, to have a fresh start with more scope. In this way a very superior class of settlers have spread over and occupied the country beneficially to themselves and to it. No other system that has been tried has so effectually secured this desirable result. It is necessarily an expensive system to work, each settler being in communication with the Land Office for several years, and Rangers have to be stationed to see that the conditions are fulfilled on the ground. There have been proposals to relax the conditions. It should be distinctly understood, however, that there can be no departure from the residence and improvement clauses, and that a person can only exercise the privilege once of obtaining land in this way. The conditions are generally very fairly fulfilled and very few forfeitures have had to be enforced. The areas enumerated under " Total Land Forfeited" have been relinquished as a rule voluntarily by persons, who after selection, decided not to occupy. On agricultural lease, 212 applications were approved for an area of 29,338 acres. This system of settlement is only in operation within the area of the proclaimed Gold Fields. In Otago, it has had a very extensive development; since 1862, nearly 4,000 applications have been approved, covering 235,000 acres. The main features of the system are. a lease at the rent of 2s. 6d. per acre, running from three to seven years, at the option of the lessee with right to purchase after three years, provided certain easy conditions of improvement have been effected, and the Government do not determine the lease, in the latter case, which is a very rare occurrence, the value of any improvements made, are paid to the lessee. Upon the whole, this system has answered well, and under it much the greater part of the interior settlement of Otago has taken place. There is no residence clause, and consequently it is much more popular on the Gold Fields than the Deferred Payment system. For anyone may quite legitimately take up land without any intention of settling on it, or a party of applicants may combine and convert a Block into a small run or grazing farm. In this we have what may be termed the abuse of the system, for the selection of Blocks is generally made on the plea of their adaptability to agriculture and the settlement of people on the soil. The agricultural lessee has the option at the end of the three years, of exchanging the agricultural lease for a Deferred Payment license. Forty-two settlers have availed themselves of this in the twelve months ended 30th June, 1878. By this exchange the rent becomes an instalment of the price of the land. This, together with the effect of the Crown Lands Sale Act, 1877, raising the Deferred Payment land to £3 per acre, has given the agricultural lessee much the more favourable terms of payment. A comparison of the two systems taking the minimum payments, that a selector is liable for under each system, will show this :—The Deferred Payment selector must make twenty half-yearly payments of 35., in all £3.

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The Agricultural Lessee Six Half-yearly Payments at Is. 3d £0 7 6 Under Exchange Lease Fourteen Half-yearly do. do. Is. 6d. ... ... ... ... £1 1 0 In AU £1 8 6 or a sum of £1 lis. 6d. in favour of the applicant on agricultural lease. This inequality is somewhat mitigated by the Land Board carefully reserving the best sections for the Deferred Payment settlers. From table No. 6, it will be seen that the pastoral country under license or lease in the Colony, is about thirteen and quarter million acres held by 1,038 tenants, who pay £119,147 3s. 4d. per annum, or at the rate of from |d. to 5Jd. per acre. The other tables do not call for any remark. It is rather too early to review the effects of the Land Act, 1877, and the Crown Lands Sale Act, 1877, both of which only came into operation on the Ist of January. But it may be affirmed that the enhanced price of lands due to the last mentioned enactment, will have the certain effect of diminishing sales in those Land Districts, where the land is inferior or covered with forest. Canterbury is not affected at all, Otago is not very much, except in the price of Deferred Payment lands. But in all the other Land Districts the transactions in land will be very materially lessened by the change. Virtually, it is a reservation of large areas until the advance of the country makes it worth while to give the price now put on them. There have been suggestions made by several of the Commissioners, towards a reduction in price. But even at the risk of retarding settlement, it will be better to have more experience of the defects before attempting amendments. During the current year the more special efforts towards the encouragement of settlement, will be introduction of the Deferred Payment system in Canterbury. It is proposed to open on this system part of 40,000 acres of valuable Bailway Reserves now no longer required to be withheld, which will suit exceedingly well for small settlers. They are in the midst of purchased lands and alongside, or within easy reach of rail. These reserves will be surveyed into town, suburban, and rural lands. Other Blocks in Canterbury will also be opened for application on the same system. The sale of pastoral lands on Deferred Payments will also be introduced during the current year ; this will be tried in Otago, where several runs near Dunedin are now being surveyed with that object. The improvement of lands before sale by rendering them more accessible, will also be gone on with. This is especially necessary in bush lands. The Land Boards of Auckland and Wellington are so much impressed with the need of opening up bush lands with tracks before sale, that, as already mentioned, they -withhold large Blocks of surveyed land, until the contemplated improvements are made. It will be impossible to carry out in one season all that has been suggested, and indeed it would not be -wise to enter at first too largely on a scheme which, although very sound in principle, is one that a great deal of money might very easily be thrown away on without any adequate result. At first the expenditure "will mainly, if not altogether be towards improving the access to lands already surveyed. If it proves a success, an effort must be made to have the tracks pushed on in advance of the sectional surveyor, and care must be taken that they are carefully graded, so that all present and subsequent works will concentrate on the making ultimately of good practicable roads. There is a vast amount of this sort of work requiring to be done, more especially in the North Island, and the settlement of that part of the Colony is only but beginning. Departmental.—ln consequence of Dr. Giles appointment to the Magistracy and Land Commissionership in Westland, a vacancy arose in the Crown Lands Office which, after consideration, ■was met by the existing arrangement of dividing the work of the office into two divisions—one of Crown Lands and Immigration with Mr. Eliott as Under-Secretary, and the other of Gold Fields, with Mr. Wakefield as Under-Secretary. The business has increased very much of late, and the re-organisation referred to conduces to its prompt despatch. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, JAMES McKEBBOW, Secretary for Crown Lands.

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No. 2. SUMMARY OF EXTENT OF CROWN LANDS ABSOLUTELY DISPOSED OF for Cash, Scrip, or in any other manner, during the Year ending 30th June, 1878.

No. 1. SUMMARY OF LANDS DISPOSED OF from Foundation of the Colony, with total Cash received, &c., for the Year ending 30th June, 1878.

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LANDS SOLD. LANDS DISPOSED OF WITHOUT SALE. Number of Acres. Rate per Acre. CONSIDERATION District. Number of Purchases. Number of Purchases. Number of Purchases. By Grants or in any other manner. Town. Suburban. Country. Town. Suburban. Country. Cash. Scrip. Auckland Hawke's Bay ... Taranaki Wellington Kelson A. R. P. 32 0 28 5 0 33 25 2 3 45 3 32 9 3 21 104 8 83 29 46 a. r. p. 201 3 32 6 0 0 413" 0 31 10 1 20 22 1 "22 2 18,951 3 33 39,786 1 0 13,763 0 37 64,462 2 2 8,466 2 30 462 61 153 165 47 £ S. D. 151 8 1J 88 4 0 22 8 0 42 7 0 48 12 0 £ S. D. 13 18 8 5 6 8 6 14 3 5 0 3 A 1 1 2 £ s. r>. 2 7 0 0 10 8 18 0 0 13 8 0 9 8 £ s. r. 36,594 10 6 21,806 5 0 19,648 6 11 43,861 8 1 4,537 8 11 £ s. D. 15,566 15 0 170 0 0 4,995 0 0 106 15 0 A. it. r. 80 0 0 14,007 0 0 1,002 1 B 747 1 1 0 1 It Marlborough ... Canterbury 26 1 28 94 3 25 23 377 564 0 22 8 746 3 21 554,168 3 11 4 4,151 19 8 9 157 4 3 2 8 9 2 0 0 2,980 1 10 1,123,823 8 3 2,198 0 7 71,412 0 0 B 2 0 0 5 11 1 4 18 7 ... Westland 0 tago ... Southland 3 0 38 175 0 6 49 0 3 16 191 92 90 2 7 4 1 15 732 2 20 12 106 2,721 0 0 92,865 3 11 32,403 2 28 828,336 3 13 33 417 58 46 6 0 36 10 9 40 3 8 1 0 0 17 8 1 16 11 1,133 16 0 132,228 18 2 63,637 2 1 1,450,251 5 9 1,920 0 0 2,728 14 6 1,741 14 0 27,228 18 6 360 0 88 270 2 21. Total ... 467 1 17 969 2,023 0 27 174 5,551 90,083 8 a ... ... - A. The rate given, being less than £3, is accounted for by its being undetermined transaction under "The Marlborough Waste Lands Amendment Act, 1874." B. Undetermined Application— see Section 3, Land Act, 1877.

District. Total Area Sold or Otherwise Disposed of from the Foundation of the Colony. Total Cash Received, Total Area open for Selection on 30 June, 1878. Total Area remaining' for Future Disposal, exclusive of Area in preceding Column, and of Native Lands. Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington Nelson Marlborough Canterbury Westland Otago Southland A. K. P. 2,192,548 1 19 1,002,935 2 20J 262,604 3 18 1,852,897 2 10 1,037,706 0 0 846,036 3 28 2,606,184 1 39 139,524 3 5 2,171,647 2 15 978,503 3 18 £ s. D. 351,411 2 6 434,092 12 0 119,782 11 1 741,938 12 0 355,348 5 4 268,275 10 9 5,190,092 16 2 54,557 2 6 1,970,443 1 2 964,286 4 4 A. R. p. 36,434 0 0 36,800 0 0 13,872 2 14 25,840 3 0 5,848,294 0 0 1,096,116 0 12 5,569,010 3 19 244,264 3 5 219,765 0 0 1,802,088 1 22 14,892,486 1 32 A. K. 1'. 2,178,120 0 0 296,246 0 0 1,362,106 0 0 1,131,668 0 0 1,057,847 0 0 2,661,970 0 0 11,188,890 0 0 ... Total 13,090,590 0 12J i 10,450,227 17 10 19,876,847 0 0 -

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No. 3. SUMMARY OF LAND SELECTED up to 30th June, 1878.

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No. 4. SUMMARY of Particulars of Applications to Exchange Agricultural Leases for Leases on Deferred Payments for the Year ending 30th June, 1878.

SUMMARY of Particulars of Application to Convert Leaseholds into Freeholds.

No. 5. SUMMARY of Number and Area of Pastoral Licenses issued during the Year ending 30th June, 1878.

No. 6. SUMMARY of Lands held under Pastoral License or Lease on 30th June, 1878.

District. Number of Applications to Exchange. Extent. Value of Improvements. Extent Cultivated. A. R. P. £ S. D. A. K. P, Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki ... Wellington Nelson Marlborough Canterbury Westland ... Otago Southland 4 500 0 0 45 2,453" 3 6 Total 49 2,953 3 6

District. Number of Applications to Convert. Extent. Value of Improvements. Extent Cultivated. A. E. P. 2,337 0 0 £ a. d. A. B. P. Auckland... Hawke's Bay Taranaki ... Wellington Nelson Marlborough Canterbury Westland... Otago Southland 44 8,376" 0 9 8 236 5 41 3 10 22,777 2 12 790 0 16 41' 3 10 1,500 0 0 80" 0 0 Total 288 34,332 2 7 1,500 0 0 121 3 10

District. Number of Holders. Area. Number of Stock. Rent. ■License Fees (if any). Total Rent per acre. A. K. P. 1,550 0 0 1,500 0 0 £ S. D. 5 0 0 3 11 £ S. D. 01 1 Auckland Hawke's Bay ... Taranaki Wellington Nelson Marlborough ... Canterbury Westland Otago Southland District 1 1 Not known. 200 5 "o 0 j 2 4 14,068" 0 0 13,318 0 0 Not known. 1,827 117 4 8 53 6 2 16 10 0 2 1 i 12 4,000" 0 0 174,400 0 0 Not known. Not known. 23" 2 0 2,544 16 8 60 0 0 l'i Total 81 10 0 208,836 0 0 2,746 10 7

District. Number of Holders. Area Approximately. Average Area to each. Stock Depastured. Rent Paid. License Fees. Total Payments.. Averag) I Pel" Acre. Auckland Hawke's Bay ... Taranaki Wellington Nelson Marlborough Canterbury Westland 11 25 A. R. P. 92,700 0 0 130,736 0 0 Acres. 8,427 5,229 Not known. 35,000 £ s. r>. 87 10 0 332 11 6 £ S. D. 5 "6 0 £ s. D. 87 10 0 337 11 6 S. D. o' "of 1 100 80 509 36 500 0 0 553,958 3 18 1,081,720 0 0 3,608,767 0 0 480,540 0 0 5,539 13,521 7,090 11,348 800 Sheep. Not known. 152,000 Not known. 52 0 0 4,233 7 10 4,527 7 6 33,082 15 4 884 12 1 20 6 0 52 0 0 4,223 7 10 4,547 7 6 33,082 15 4 884 12 1 2 1 0 1| 0 1 0 21 0 OJ Otago 216 6,146,031 0 0 28,453 Great,"7,665 Small, 1,943,076 58,521 17 1 58,521 17 1 0 21 „ Wakatipu & Tuapeka Kuns Southland 36 24 494,500 0 0 748,027 0 0 13,736 31,168 Not known. 11,563 0 11 5,837 1 1 11,563 0 11 5,837 1 1 0 5> 0 2 Total 1,038 |l3,265,479 3 18 119,122 3 4 25 0 0 119,147 3 4

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No. 7. SUMMARY of Number and Area of Leases and Licenses, other than Agricultural and Pastoral, issued during the Year ending 30th June, 1878, and Revenue therefrom.

District.. Area Leased. Rent. Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington Nelson A. R. p. 371 0 0 60 0 2 £ S. D. 200 0 0 137 0 0 2,152 0 37 543 19 6 A 30 1 0 10 0 1 0 0 224 3 3 1,390 18 6 Marlborough Canterbury Westland Otago Southland 23,311 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1,743 2 33 11,381 3 14 Total ... 39,023 3 6 2,528 2 3 A. A Tithe of Is. 4d. per 100 feet. No. 8. Summary of Number of Licenses Eevoki id during the Year ending 30th June, 1878. District. Description of License Forfeited or Revoked. At Licensee's Request. For Non-paymenl of Fees. Non-com-pliance with and Violation of Conditions. Issued in Error. Total Number. Extent. A. R. J?. Auckland Hawke's Bay ... Taranaki Wellington Nelson Marlborough Canterbury Westland Licenses under Act of 1863 Depasturing licenses Pastoral Pasturage licenses and Mineral Lease Deferred payments Deferred payments "i 3 1 24 4 1 24 6,131 0 0 5,950 0 0 29,289 0 0 Otago Southland 15 7 5 23 i 7 39 5 98,250 0 0 6,873 3 15 984 1 9 Total 16 147,478 O 24 40 23 80 No. 9. Return of Crown Gran' during PS dealt with, in the Gene ;he Year ending 30th June :ral Crown i, 1878. iands Department Draft Grants Received. Executed and Despatched. Cancelled and others issued in lieu thereof. Corrected. Antcvested. Duplicates Issued. 3,477. 3,161. 17. 19. 3. 4.