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clearing being 1,338 chains. The expenditure of the year on improved-farm settlements was £4,182 Is. 9d. Ohoke Block (Vote, £585). —In continuation of the work reported last year, a further length of 133-J- chains of Okoke Eoad has been felled, stumped, and cleared, and 102 chains have been formed as a sft. bridle-road. On Kaka Eoad, 30 chains, and on Piko Eoad, 17 chains, have been felled, stumped, and cleared. Upper Waitara Block. —The expenditure of £63 was for payment of work done last year on Uruti Eoad. Oxford Association Block (Vote, £705). — 50 chains of felling, stumping, and clearing on Mohakau and Tunipo Ecads. Cost for year, £317 4s. Id., of which a large portion was in payment of last year's work. As the Oxford Association settlers did not take up or improve their holdings, the lands are now being offered under the ordinary settlement system, and as they are taken up road-work will be again resumed. Ngatimaru Block. —The expenditure of £173 was for the payment only of contracts completed last year on Douglas and other roads in Block IX., Ngatimaru. Lepperton Block (Vote, £431). —Work was suspended in this block, and is only now being resumed. The only work for the year was the felling, stumping, and clearing of about 20 chains of road running into the furthest section. The Mimi Eoad through the settlement is now being drained, formed, and bridged. Moanatairi Block (Vote, £300). —Very few of the settlers have attempted to improve their holdings in this block, and no application has yet been made to have the roads opened. Until some definite advance is made by the settlers interested, it would be inadvisable to spend any money on road-work within the block. Milson Block. —The expenditure of £12 was only to cover payment of work previously done. Mangaere Block (Vote, £1,000). —40 chains of road, felling, stumping, and clearing, 190 chains of sft. bridle-road formation, and 80 chains of dray-road formation, including 499 lineal feet of culverts, has been done on Akama and Mohakau roads during the past yea.r. Work on these roads is still in progress, the work being done on co-operative principles, chiefly by the settlers owning land in the block. Boss Block (Vote, £250). —The settlers in this block who have made improvements have been working on Ohura Eoad, and have only lately commenced the felling, stumping, and clearing of service-roads within the Eoss Block. No payment has yet been made on account of work done. Eltham Block (Vote, £650). —315 chains of felling, stumping and clearing, 292 chains of bridle road formation, including 477 lineal feet of culverts and 54 lineal feet of bridges, have been done during the year on Brewer and Taihore Eoads. The timber is being obtained for a 50ft. truss bridge over Mongaotuku Stream, Brewer Eoad, which will be erected in June. Mangaotuku Block (Vote, £650). —During the year 110 chains of logging, stumping, and clearing through felled bush, 92-J- chains of felling, stumping, and clearing, 88 chains of bridle road formation, and 114£ chains of dray-road, including 516 lineal feet of culverts, have been completed oil Mangaotuku Eoad leading into Gatton and Terrace End Special Settlements. Bridges are required over Mangaotuku and Mangaehu streams to give access to Terrace End Special Settlement. Mangaehu Block (Vote, £274). —Payment to Stratford County Council for work done prior to last year's report. Manganui Block (Vote, £600). —605 chains of York, Eadnor, Denbigh, Surrey, and Derby Eoads within this Block have, during the year, been felled, stumped, and cleared, at a cost of £408 os. 4d., and contracts are now in progress for draining, culverting, and forming these roads. The whole of the block is settled upon, and satisfactory improvements effected. The above work will probably be completed in June. Gatton Block (Vote, £300). —243 chains of felling, stumping, and clearing, and 147 chains of sft. bridle-road formation, including 253 lineal feet of culverts, and 48 lineal feet of bridges have been made on Mangaehu and Tututawa Eoads, and similar work is in progress. Egmont VI. Block (Vote, £200). —On Maude Korito and Hill Eoads within the above block 241 chains have been felled, stumped, and cleared in the usual manner. Arrangements are now being made for the necessary culverting and road formation. Kaitangiwhenua No. 2 (Vote, £2,300). —Eawhitiroa Eoad : In continuation of the work reported on last year, 840 chains of this road have been felled, stumped, cleared, and formed as a sft. bridleroad ; also, 1,433 lineal feet of culverts and 644 lineal feet of bridges over papa-gorges and streams have been constructed. The road is now completed and opened as a bridle-road from Waitotara Valley Eoad towards Eltham for a distance of 17 miles 18 chains. A gap exists (the work on which is in progress) of about fifteen miles to connect with the dray-road at Anderson Eoad and by it to Eltham. Opaku-Kapara Block (Vote, £645). —79 chains of Okahutiria Eoad, and 212 chains of Wera-