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Waiau Domain. Section No. 1, Block XIII, Waiau Survey District. Area, 40 acres. Work done during year: About 800 trees planted, and blackberry and sweetbriar cut down. Improvements now on domain: Fences, dressing-room, and plantation. Used for football, sports, and picnics. Proposed operations for ensuing year: Clearing gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and blackberry, levelling, planting trees, and enlarging dressing-room. Waihora Park Domain. Reserve No. 2585, Block XIV, Halswell Survey District. Area, 200 acres. Work done during year: Trees and shrubs planted, and general maintenance. Improvements now on domain: 'Double fence enclosing a belt of trees, three artesian wells, windmill, water-supply laid on by pipes and taps, receiving-tanks, caretaker's cottage, gates, shade-house, and greenhouse. Used for general recreation, sports, and picnics. Proposed operations for ensuing year: Fencing off sports-ground and protecting trees. Wainui Domain. Section No. 727, Block VII, Akaroa Survey District. Area, 2 acres. Work done during year: Domain levelled, drained, and sown down in English grass, trees planted in three corners, and gates and picket-fence painted. Improvements now on domain : Eighteen chains fences, 19 chains drains, trees, and grassing. Proposed operations for ensuing year: Repairing fences. Waitaki North Domain. Reserve No. 2915, Block XIV, Waitaki Survey District, Area, 57 acres. Work done during year: Fencing material procured and erected, and trees planted. Improvements now on domain : Fences, well, trough, windmill, pump, and trees. Used for grazing purposes. Proposed operations for ensuing year: Tree-planting and fencing. Weedon Domain. Reserve No. 1596, Block XV, Rolleston Survey District. Area, 48 acres 2 roods 17 perches. Work done during year: Building for cricketers and picket and wire-netting fence erected, and trees planted. Improvements now on domain: Fences, 10 acres plantation, bathing pond and shed, and building. Used for cricket and picnics. Proposed operations for ensuing year: Clearing gorse and trimming hedges. West Melton Domain. Reserve No. 1564, Rolleston Survey District. Area, 20 acres. Improvements now on domain: Fences, and plantation 11 yards wide surrounding the whole area. Used for sports and picnics. Winchester Domain. Reserves Nos. 2402 and 2449, Block XIV, Geraldine Survey District. Area, 42 acres 1 rood. Work done during year: Tennis-courts and croquet-lawns formed and fenced in, hedges trimmed, gorse grubbed,* windmill painted, and trees in plantation thinned and undergrowth cleared. Improvements now on domain: Gorse and wire fences, plantations, small shed, and grass tennis-courts. Used for general recreation. Woodbury Domain. Reserve No. 2407, Hororata Survey District. Area, 100 acres. Work done during year: Fallen trees cut into firewood, leak in bath repaired, tennis-court tarred, concrete cricket-pitch formed, and general maintenance. Improvements now' on domain: Two hundred and sixty-eight chains fences, 5 acres drain-ploughed, two pavilions, dressing-room, lavatory, concrete bath, concrete cricket-pitch, asphalt tennis-court, and 8 acres plantation. Used for picnics, sports, cricket, tennis, swimming, and general recreation. Proposed operations for ensuing year: Grubbing out gorse hedge and erecting seven-wire post and standard fence, repairing and painting pavilion and dressing-room, and repairing and erecting gates. It may also be necessary to renew the grass and shrubs owing to the dry season. Woodend Domain. Reserves Nos. 2134, 3728, and 2539, Rangiora Survey District. Area, 268 acres 2 roods 23 perches. Work done during year: Fences erected and trees trimmed. Improvements now on domain : Fences levelling, pavilion, asphalt tennis-court, and plantation. Used for picnics, football, cricket, tennis, and sports. The area adjoins the public school, and is also used by the children as a playground. Proposed operations for ensuing year: Planting trees and sinking well.