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APPENDIX D. Stock Beanch. —Expenditube on Eabbits during the Year ended 31st March, 1886. £ s. d. Salaries of Inspectors of Sheep who are also Eabbit Inspectors ... 13,415 0 0 Wages of Eabbit Agents, costs of poisoning Crown lands, and contingent expenditure ... ... ... ... 13,693 0 0 £27,108 0 0

APPENDIX E. Approximate Area of Unoccupied Crown Lands in Country badly infested with Rabbits, not badly infested but dangerous, and where a few only are to be found.

Betubn showing the Approximate Area of Unoccupied Crown Lands in each Eabbit District in the Colony. District. Area. j District. Area. Napier ... ... ... 303,485 ! Tuturau ... ... ... 1,272 Castlepoint ... ... ... 212,000 Kaiwera ... ... ... 856 Masterton ... ... ... 96,000 Wyndham ... ... ... 6,713 Wainuioru ... ... ... 75,000 Hokonui ... ... ... 32,200 Awhea ... ... ... 30,000 Aparima ... ... ... 50,520 Carterton ... ... ... 44,500 Wallace ... ... ... 75,970 Palmerston North ... ... 42,600 West Oreti ... ... ... 1,000,500 Otaraia "... ... ... 27,800 . Tapanui ... ... ••• 11,899 Total ... ... 2,781,013 Lake ..'. ... ... 703^000

County. Unoccupied Crown Lands. Unoccupied Crown Lands badly infested. Unoccupied Crown Lands not badly infested but dangerous. Unoccupied Crown Lands not infested. Hutt ... Horowhenua Wairarapa Bast Wairarapa West Waipawa Collingwood Sounds Waimea Buller Marlborough ... Inangahua Kaikoura Acres. 197,000 118,500 513,000 185,000 31,900 657,300 96,200 635,900 1,022,700 394,800 1,610,500 42,000 670,000 515,200 153,500 215,000 872,500 25,700 2,500 5,200 32,700 86,000 8,800 176,500 375,000 1,007,000 1,842,000 293,600 26,000 538,000 Acres. 127,000 100,700 Acres. 8,600 Acres. 197,000 118,500 377,400 84,300 31,900 657,300 96,200 624,400 1,022,700 373,500 1,610,500 11,500 21,300 42,000 Grey ... Amuri Waitaki Vincent Lake ... Maniototo Waihemo Waikouaiti Taieri Tuapeka Bruce Clutha Southland Wallace Fiord ... Ashburton Geraldine Mackenzie .. i 101,500 194,500 353,500 25,700 2,500 5,200 32,700 86,000 8,800 176,500 375,000 659,000 29,000 161,000 2,500 670,000 512,700 52,000 20,500 519,000 348,000 1,813,000 132,600 26,000 533,000 5,000 Totals 12,350,000 2,518,400 11,100 9,820,500