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"THE LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS CONSOLIDATION ACT, 1900." TABLE C.—Statement of Lands acquired to 31st March, 1901, prepared in Terms of Subsection (2) of Section 73 of the said Act— continued.

Name of Person or Company from whom it was bought or acquired. Report and Valuation of Board. Report on Condition* and Settlement of the Land. Name of Settlement. Area of each Block of Land as purchased. Locality of Land. Quality of Land. Price paid to Seller to 31st March, 1901. Report of Board. Valuation of Board. Brought forward .. Marlborough Land Dist. — continued. Flaxbourne (part) 5,020 0 0 £ s. d. 14,806 5 3 £ s. d. 404 0 0 Block XIV., Clifford Bay Survey District Loamy soil, all ploughable Clifford, Sir G. 1,212 0 0 The Board approves of an exchange of certain Crown lands on Stonyhurst for an area of freehold land on Flaxbourne The land is good, and suitable for settlement, and the Board recommends the purchase 3 0 0 See Report attached. North Bank 13,000 0 0 Pine Valley and Mount Olympus Survey Districts Bell Brothers 6,750 0 0 See Report attached. Omaka 3,898 0 0 Block VI., Avon Survey District, and Block I., Taylor Pass Survey District Sections 50 and 51, Puhipuhi Survey District Good agricultural land Goulter, Charles .. 10,865 13 6 The land is good, and suitable for settlement. There is a demand for such land in the district, and the Board therefore recommends the purchase The land is good, and suitable for settlement. There is a demand for such land in the district, and the Board therefore recommends the purchase The land is good, and suitable for settlement, and the Board recommends the purchase 2 15 9 See Report attached. Puhipuhi 320 o o; Parsons, J. A. 320 0 0 10 0 Richmond Brook 5,827 0 0 Awatere Valley, contiguous to Starborough Alluvial flats and rolling downs Richmond, F. H. 23,890 7 0 4 5 0 4 14 0 1 10 0 ■ See Report attached. Starborough 32,385 3 15 In Clifford Bay, Taylor Pass, Cape Campbell, and Blue Mountain Survey Districts Good flats, terraces, and rolling downs; soil of excellent quality ; the whole area in good heart Open fern and tussock land, and flat land of varying qualities Beaumont's Trustees 99,350 0 0 The land is good, and suitable for settlement in farms of from 200 to 500 acres, and from 2,000 to 5,000 acres each, and the Board recommends the acquisition of the whole property 1 10 0 to 4 15 6 (See Report attached. Waipapa 3,648 0 0 In Puhipuhi Survey District Bell, James 8,250 0 0 The land is good, and suitable for settlement as small grazing-runs See Report attached. Total .. 64,502 3 15 165,444 5 9 i I To meet the strong desire for land on the part of the people residing in the district, that Mr. Clark be offered £1 2s. 6d. an acre as a final price, and that the proposed road and other expenditure on the total expenditure on which rental will be charged acre on an average Westland Land District — Poerua .. .. 3,230 1 6 Blocks X. and XIV., Te Kinga Survey District Mica- schist silt on shingle Clark, C. .. 3,634 1 6 See Report attached. 12 6 Total 3,230 1 6 i 3,634 1 6 land be si does not i ich that the ixceed £2 an