LEASES IN PERPETUITY FORFEITED OR SURRENDERED, AND HOW RESELECTED.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1901 Session I, C-12

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1901. NEW ZEALAND.

LEASES IN PERPETUITY FORFEITED OR SURRENDERED, AND HOW RESELECTED.

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the 31st July, 1901. Ordered, " That there be laid before this House a return showing the number of leases in perpetuity which have been surrendered or forfeited, and the form of tenure under whioh the forfeited or surrendered sections have been selected."—(Mr. McNab.) •

Number of Leases in Perpetuity surrendered or forfeited, and form of Tenure under which same have been reselected.

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Land District. Number of Leases Total. Surrendered. Forfeited. Number. Form of Tenure under which re-selected. j Total. Tenure. Auckland .. 65 182 247 10 87 86 64 Cash Lease in perpetuity Occupation with right of purchase .. Not selected 247 Hawke's Bay 15 39 54 f 3 32 ] 8 1 11 Cash Lease in perpetuity Occupation with right of purchase .. Not selected 54 Taranaki .. 108 222 330 ( 4 61 ■I 97 46 I 122 Cash Lease in perpetuity Occupation with right of purchase .. Not selected Dropped by rearrangement 208 122* Wellington I 7 365 348 1 12 I 181 I Cash Lease in perpetuity Occupation with right of purchase .. Reserved Not selected (a large number being withheld for forest and milling purposes) 235 678 913 913 Marlborough 4 7 11 I 9 1 2 Lease in perpetuity Not selected 11 Nelson 4 8 12 I ,: Oocupation with right of purchase .. Not selected 12 Westland .. 5 5 I ! Lease in perpetuity Occupation with right of purohase .. Not selected Canterbury 29 145 174 i 78 32 J 16 Perpetual lease Lease in perpetuity „ (village homestead) Small grazing-runs Occupation with right of purchase .. Pastoral runs Reserved Not selected 174 Otago 108 173 281 { 10 137 J 38 1 1 { 91 Cash Lease in perpetuity Occupation with right of purchase .. Pastoral runs Small grazing-runs Not selected 281 Southland .. I 6 117 J 37 I J I 65 Cash Lease in perpetuity Occupation with right of purchase .. Pastoral run Small grazing-runs Not seleoted 230 80 150 230 1,609 2,257 2,257 648 2,257 * Note.—122 sections were merged or grouped prior to reselection.