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Timber cut on Crown Lands, Westland. Eed-pine, 275,333 ft., at 3d. per 100 ft., £34 Bs. 4d. Silver-pine, 555,866 ft., at 6d. per 100 ft., £138 19s. 4d. Timber cut on Mining Blocks, Westland. Eed-pine, 1,808,984 ft., at 3d. per 100 ft., £223 12s. 6d. Timber cut on Grey Coal Reserve. Eed-pine, 501,700 ft., at 6d. per 100 ft. royalty, £125 Bs. 6d. W. G. Mubbay, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

CANTERBURY. Land Tbansactions, 1897-98.

Transactions during the Year. Area heli at 31st Maroh, 1898. Class of Selection. Revenue received during the Year. Number. Area. Number. Area. Cash— Bural Crown lands ... ... Rural, Cheviot ... ».* Suburban, Cheviot Town Crown lands Town, Cheviot ... Deferred-payment holders (including pastoral deferred payment) Deferred payment made freehold Perpetual-leaseholders Perpetual lease made freehold ... Occupation with right of purchase ... Lease in perpetuity— Crown lands Lake Ellesmere... Cheviot Land for settlements Conversions to lease in perpetuity ... Village settlements— Deferred payment Deferred payment made freehold ... Perpetual lease... Perpetual lease made freehold Occupation with right of purchase... Lease in perpetuity Village-homestead special settlement— Perpetual lease ... Lease in perpetuity Lease in perpetuity, Cheviot Lease in perpetuity, Lake Ellesmere Farm homesteads— Perpetual lease... Lease in perpetuity Lease in perpetuity, land for settlement Small grazing-runs— Crown lands Land for settlement Grazing-farms, Cheviot Pastoral licenses— Crown lands Cheviot State forests Miscellaneous leasesCrown lands ... Cheviot ... ... Land for settlement ... ... Endowment ... State forests Other sources 9 1 6 7 1 3 "i 11 6 155 16 2 2 A. B. P 234 1 36 100 0 0 25 2 20 3 0 19 0 10 386 1 35 60" 2 0 3,616 2 0 105 2 12 22,594 3 27 465 2 22 10* 0 0 2" 0 0 32 100 12 176 68 116 408 18 62 3 20 A. B. F. 14,274 2 35 15,870 1 10 1,080 3 24 71,022 0 10 13,943 3 39 23,928 0 33 39,826 2 19 307 1 33 1,160 3 15 "6 3 0 8 3 11 £ s. d. 393 6 2 550 0 0 275 0 0 136 12 0 13 12 0 1,863 14 4 1,174 0 3 60 10 0 84 5 8 3,548 0 8 1,334 2 5 6,455 19 9 10,552 6 7 108 4 3 601 3 11 45 0 0 0 12 0 7 6 0 6 2 22" 3 26 16 3 3 139 89 79 47 4,061 0 35 3,768 0 20 2,480 1 0 1,417 1 3 634 13 0 284 19 0 825 3 11 262 16 0 "i 50 0 0 22 3 11 2,057 0 11 211 0 26 2,114 1 9 166 12 1 9 0 2 167 4 10 10 2 15 42,298 3 5 5,160 3 36 811 0 9 47 3 41 114,840 1 25 9,440 2 1 45,691 0 9 4,695 0 1 119 19 0 6,355 1 7 16 441,512 0 12 99 2 1 3,069,309 0 12 2,102 0 0 746 0 0 31,014 18 7 358 15 6 4 13 0 i 746 0 0 99 10 10 6 1 38,386 1 10 262 2 21 255 3 37 232 2 0 4,000 0 0 306 72 8 16 10 47,566 2 2 2,929 0 16 172 1 22 2,390 2 24 8,185 0 0 2,240 1 9 622 11 9 176 0 5 174 18 3 237 15 0 3,074 6 7 • : " :; • Total '..'. 399 561,361 0 10 2,010 3,500,906 3 4 78,628 6. 6