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Land for Settlements Estates. The progress, present position, and prospects of each settlement are given in the report of the Commissioners of Crown Lands embodied in the succeeding table. Owing to the unusually dry spring and summer of the past season, circumstances have operated rather adversely in several of the newly selected areas, as it is undoubtedly the fact that the first two years are the most trying from the settlers' point of view. Thirteen additional estates have been acquired and opened for selection, and in nearly all cases the applicants were far in excess of the number of allotments available.

Table J.—Summary of the Settlements established upon Estates acquired and dealt with under the Provisions of the Land for Settlements Acts, up to the 31st March, 1908.

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Land District and Name of Settlement. Selec- , Realtors. | dences. Principal Purpose for which Holdings are utilised. IdurfnfYear. Present Position. Prospects. Auckland— Opouriao Okauia .. Rangiatea Karapiro ' Fencourt Whitehall Bickerstaffe Matamata Selwyn .. Mangapouri Mangawhero Waimanaf Teasdalef Rewif .. Hamlets— Cradock Hetana Kitchener Methuen Plumer Waari 93 8 20 18 37 11 33 181 82 10 17* 24 33 77 7 18 11 33 10 24 138 37 6 15 Dairying General farming Dairying .. .. , Cattle raising Dairying Mixed farming Dairying .. . Excellent Nil Moderate Good Moderate Pair Good Moderate Good .. ! Very satisfactory Not satisfactory Satisfactory Very satisfactory Satisfactory Very satisfactory Satisfactory Very best. Gloomy. Fair. Very best. Pair. Bright. Pair. Bright. 9 30 11 28 16 8 9 22 10 22 16 7 1 V Workmen's homes Moderate to good Satisfactory Hopeful. 669 462 Prosperous Hawke's Bay— Raureka 19 18 Agricultural, dairying, and fruit-culture Pastoral .. .. Agricultural Very fair Good. Elsthorpe Waimarie Pouparae Tomoana 47 18 9 13 27 16 9 12 Mahora Willows Hatuma Manga-a-toro Kumeroa Argyle .. Wigan .. Lindsay Mangatahi Forest Gate Te Mata* Pourerere} Raumati} Kanakanae} Te Arai} 34 22 62 26 j 15 62 17 66 23 29 8 5 20 7 51 32 14 59 25 14 60 14 61 20 25 Agricultural, dairying, and fruit-culture Ditto Agricultural Agricultural and pastoral .. Pastoral Pastoral and dairying Agricultural and pastoral .. Pastoral Agricultural and pastoral .. Pastoral Agricultural and pastoral .. Very good Very fair Very good Very fair » Very good Very fair 553 406 Taranaki— Tokaora Spotswood Clandon Huinga .. 13 8 6 9 U 8 5 8 Dairying Workmen's homes Dairying Good .. Not good Good Satisfactory .. ( Not satisfactory ] Satisfactory .. I Good. Not promising. Good. 36 35 Wellington— Paparangi 37 30 Residential sites, dairying, &o. Dairying Good Prosperous .. i Very good. Ohakea .. Te Matua Aorangi 15 13 37 15 12 ■10 Dairying and residential purposes Grazing'and cropping Dairying .. .. .. [ Very good Very prosperous 1 Excellent. Langdale Mangawhata 31 7 23 8 Good" .. Very satisfactory C Good". * Includes 5 selectors who also selected land in Selwyn Settlement, ibese settlements. ♦ Now settlements not reported on. 1 No inspections