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APPENDIX.

Names of Forests, Southland.

Approximate Area. Virgin Bush. Acres. Acres. Seaward Bush ... ... ... ... ... 30,000 10,800 Wintonßush ... ... ... ... ... 5,100 800 Longwood Bush ... ... ... ... ... 100,000 50,000 Grove Bush ... ... ... ... ... 1,600 500 Spar Bush ... ... ... ... ... 1,300 200 Omaui Bush ... ... ... ... ... 400 50 Croydon Bush ... ... ... ... ... 1,400 100 Woodlaw Bush ... ... ... ... ... 4,700 3,000 Waikawa Bush ... ... ... ... .. 10,000 5,000 Oteramika Bush... ... ... ... ... 250 50 Forest Hill Bush ... ... ... ... 3,000 1,000 Hillend Bush ... ... ... ... ... 1,000 200 Makarewa Bush ... ... ... ... ... 400 50 Waimatuku Bush ... ... ... ... 200 None virgin. Otatara Bush ... ... ... ... ... 100 None virgin. Titipuaßush ... ... ... ... ... 1,600 100 Dunsdale Bush ... ... ... ... ... 11,000 1,000 Hokonui Bush ... ... -... ... ... 22,000 2,000 Blackmount Bush ... ... ... ... 3,000 1,000 Bellmount Bush... ... ... ... ... 2,000 1,000 Caroline Bush ... ... ... ... ... 980 None virgin. Wakaiaßush ... ... ... ... ... 19,000 10,000 Heale Eidge Bush ... ... ... ... 1,000 400 Tuturau Forest ... ... ... ... ... 25,000 Dean Forest ... ... ... ... ... 170,000 * Takitimo Forest ... ... ... ••■ ... 24,000 * Letham Bush ... ... ... ... ... 1,900 1,000 Tautuku Bush ... ..'. ... ... ... 9,000 1,000 Slopedown Forest ... ... ... ... 10,000 5,000 * Principally virgin.

George S. Perrin, Esq., F.L.S., F.E.G.S., Conservator of State Forests, Grand Hotel, Auckland. Be timber within the Auckland Land District and south of Auckland City. There are about 3,771,000 acres of forest-lands, most of which are Crown lands, and the rest likely to become Crown lands before long, to the south of the City of Auckland within this land district. Over this area of densely wooded lands are scattered immense quantities of matai, rata, make, rimu, miro, hinau, taraire, mangaio, and puketea, together with a considerable quantity of totara and some puriri. It is quite impossible to estimate the quantities of timber from our office records, but the supply at present seems practically inexhaustible. To the north of Auckland City the records as to timber are more reliable : Of totara we have 9,400,000 superficial feet; of kahikatea, 43,800; of puriri, 3,000,000; and of manoao (found in Hokianga County only), 2,000,000 superficial feet. The kauri lands commence at Te Aroha and extend to the north end of the Auckland District. The total quantity of kauri amounts to 1,371,405,000 ft. Of this quantity, the kauri growing on Crown lands amounts to 871,405,000 superficial feet, and the kauri growing on Native and other private lands to 500,000,000 superficial feet. Gebhaed Mdellee, Department of Lands and Survey, Commissioner of Crown Lands. District Office, Auckland, 12th October, 1896.

G. S. Perrin, Esq., Conservator of State Forests, Grand Hotel, Auckland. Please receive herewith return of timber within the Westland Land District, which our Department promised to furnish you. In his memo, the Surveyor-General requests me to point out to you that the quantities must be taken as only a very rough approximation. I also forward four sheets comprising the Auckland Land District, on which the whole of the timber-lands are show in green. An index-map is enclosed to guide at the fitting of the various sheets when being mounted as one map. A litho. of Hauraki Peninsula also enclosed. Gekhakd Muelleb, Department of Lands and Survey, Commissioner of Crown Lands. District Office, Auckland, 9th October, 1896.