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Table 1. —Return showing (approximately) Position of Lands in the Dominion at 31st March, 1922.

1 District _ . . Total Area granted T „.,l .„„ under Acts without sold Money Payment, and held on or reserved for Public Freehold Purposes from * remold. Foundation of Dominion. „ , , Total Area Total Area 0 j r.x r ?, ~* Provisional State Korests. State Forest . m , , , Estimated Area Total Area . fB ,_™ of Crown Lands «nfl Wnr-rhW j Estimated Area leased Total Area I Total Area p„,,ni-Jv I occupied under all Tenures open of not nlrendv by Roads, (exclusive of for Selection. Native Land. i'SS,.. Rivers, Reserves leased an? onheTher Lakes - &c by Crown). Headings. Total Area remaining for T , , Future Disposal, iotaiArea exclusive of Land Land Digtriet . shown in Preceding Columns. * Acres. Acres. 98,981 Acres. Acres Acres. Acres. 40,000 Acres. Acres. North Auckland .. Acres. 16,690 Acres. 454,430 9,895 j 535,492 337,692 4,478,200 Auckland 2,743,155 3,339,996 145,845 587,813 1,211,638 150,659 2,827,806 668,049 357,399 9,047,340 Hawke's Bay 2,529,700 213,054 199,653 53,735 1,014,136 9,518 1,204,783 150,664 133,657 5.508,900 Taranaki 605,044 654,567 69,500 42,639 586,394 8,273 221,493 I 68,509 148,081 2,404,500 Wellington Nelson 3,357,805 622,597 392,660 339,224 516,790 19,955 27,638 1,984,543 785,550 853,311 3,805 1,487,952 61,951 30,629 36,500 565,652 23,356 750,000+ 195,783 60,229 100,627 154,225+ 246,517 176,909 7,051,000 4,715,000 Marlborough Westland Canterbury 777,160 155,602 3,569,396 1,956,083 1,635,475 149,987 306,749 1,100,414 485,776 2,996,181 81,743 2,178 290,280 128,280 136,306 119,631 1,732,512 1,496,341 1,623,567+ 3,918,539 20 146,019t 4,207 140,500 445,749 19,135 725,538+ 8,960 2,768,000 3,863,878 9,478,045 Otago .. 317,132 5,476,086 8,101 388,430 626,479 263,463 140,819 67,409 9,090,760 Southland 522,473 1,544,520 23,797 260,559 7,886,609 Totals .. 9,978,608 1,689,511 5,404,806 18,964,512 426,245 6,308,155 2,530,917 2,288,117 2,481,856 : 66,292,232 17,952,017 * Included in Auckland figures. t Includes 1,732,512 acres of provisional State forests shown in column i.