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Return showing the Number and Amount of Mortgages registered from 31st March, 1899, to 31st March, 1900, and the different Rates of Interest at which such Money was advanced, and the Districts in which the Mortgages were Registered.

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Rates of Interest. Number of Mortgages. Amount District. * 3 3J 34 31 4| 4i 41 Mortgages. a 5i 54 £ 765,350 225,723 847,895 639,641 2,077,446 102,209 152,278 20,535 1,714,800 517,110 371,776 £ £ 3,300 750 £ 1,500 £ 200 400 '■1 £ 10,164 6,550 1,000 2,025 2,340 18,000 16,220 150 11,025 2,240 3,317 £ 4,000 £ 4,000 £ £ 93,896 2,050 56,147 5,700 238,325 i 45,700 39,218 i 5,750 459,085 ! 70,835 12,250 ! 4,155 ' 1,150 £ 381,196 37,102 187,507 106,855 525,680 35,278 71,459 5,089 595,622 172,955 179,980 £ £ 790 £ 30,034 8,930 60,850 17,394 130,115 4,270 900 £ Auckland Poverty Bay .. Hawke's Bay .. Taranaki Wellington Marlborough .. Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago Southland 2,041 257 625 1,038 3,020 157 370 77 2,348 1,121 760 i|6oo 300 500 1^431 600 2,131 •• •■ ! 20 \ 000 1,250 i 1,850 338 12,700 1,360 500 627,228 18,323 136,394 11,775 56,456 9,850 2,050 1J650 1,740 51,686 15,717 9,415 1,300 143 • • .. Total 4,000 11,814 7,434,736 1,300 8,169 1,500 16,031 1,360 73,031 4,500 1,723,154 171,133 2,298,723 2,050 24,180 329,311 2,693 Bates of Interest. District. 6 6i 64 6| 7 11 74 8 8| 9 10 11 (12 124 15 61 40 Unspecified. £ 77,209 41,048 109,844 72,019 181,800 5,038 17,777 2,520 125,860 42,342 19,997 £ £ £ 7,474 1,675 11,990 62,846 27,575 1,800 1,550 £ £ 33,061 3,010 13,342 50,313 44,444 2,983 7,565 5,342 28,123 16,669 11,413 £ £ 2,562 385 9,464 5,368 7,474 390 130 £ 17,288 2,919 3,342 25,706 27,132 5,705 14,869 3,987 23,694 13,907 19,987 £ £ 820 £ £ 3,936 725 26,805 14,985 13,269 730 2,147 1,211 4,779 1,736 856 £ 379 £ 690 j £ 45 £ 225 & £ 90,531 59,338 139,101 227,553 559,603 13,634 12,565 2,236 190,120 71,305 45,045 Auckland Poverty Bay .. ; Hawke's Bay .. Taranaki Wellington Marlborough .. Nelson Westland Canterbury Otagp ; • .. Southland 900 3,750 700 260 2,741 ioo 195 44 120 220 50 138 '85 380 1,895 65 " *25 900 - 3,640 650 '850 14,950 6,562 10,400 13,020 3,889 832 150 1,040 2,217 140 100 329 800 300 180 40 2,150 - Total 26fl 71,179 164 1,104 3,485 1,330 40 1,411,031 695,454 5,190 15,800 144,892 5,900 216,265 700 30,644 158,536 10,572 195 887