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No. 2. Return of Persons employed during the past Financial Year in the Purchase of Native Lands.

PART IV.-SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURE.

Eemuneration. Areas dealt with during the past Financial Year. (Ses foregoing Return.) O H Names. Date of Appointment. Districts. o o |3 ■8 8 O O P5|f CO Is is O & Completed Negotiations. Estimated Area represented by Shares already acquired. ■Uncompleted Negotiations. Balance represented by Shares not yet acquired, and Lands not passed through Native Land Court. Total. Q-i-i 3 o o o Remarks. a £ Acres. 8,272 923 30 Acres. Acres. 10,339 236,218 Acres. 24,611 244,711 30 £ James S. Glendon* .. Harry Kenrick* George T. Wilkinson* H. W. Brabant Gilbert Mail W. H. Grace J. E. Grace Henry Mitchell John Brooking* Thomas McDonnell.. William J. Butler .. John Stevens T. W. Lewis, U.S. .. 1 April, 1880 27 November, 1878 1 December, 1885 8 January, 1886 8 January, 1880 North of Auckland Thames Waikato Bay of Plenty Taupo 100 350 350 100 100 | 2d. I 22,641 35,541 7,570 12,304 21,420 77,516 534,263 112,461 591,224 522 Under supervision of W. J. Butler. 1 January, 1885 1 December, 1885 4 April, 1886 Poverty Bay Manawatu and Wairarapa Wangamii '350 375 'ioo 100 31,397 5,339 4,711 93,106 200,000 32,399 104,434 400,472 200,000 37,738 140,542 493,578 400,000 7,500 2a. 350 Taranaki 7,500 1 872 106,304 344,450 1,001,641 2,052,395 * These officers are paid by other departments to which they belong ; their duties with respect to land purchases are occasional only, and unremunerated.

Heads of Expenditure. Auckland. Hawke's Bay. Wellington. Taranaki. Total. s s. a. 433,619 7 8 762 3 1 8,674 16 4 44,128 0 11 91,184 15 7 1,625 18 5 £ s. d. 28,466 14 0 £ s. d. 218,004 17 1* £ s. d. 88.8S8 18 10 11 11 8 1,267 17 8 8,215 18 3 5,965 9 5f 5 0 0 950 7 6 £ s. d. 768,979 17 7 773 14 9 21,568 8 1 100,038 3 9 147,439 12 7 2,771 11 0 950 7 6 1,005 4 6 3,420 11 5 3,197 16 9 Completed negotiations, as per C.-7, 1885 .. Subsequent payments tliercon Completed negotiations, as per Part I. of this return Uncompleted negotiations, as per Part II. of this return General expenses since 1870, as per 0.-7, 1885 Salaries, &c, subsequent to C.-7, 18S5 Fencing Native reserves, Vote 111, item 7, 1885 Himatangi rents, as per Vote 111, item 8, 1885 Survey liens Payments on negotiations abandoned 6,439 10 3 4 1G 10 11,625 14 1 48,594 4 7 43,849 11 4 1,135 15 9 2,874 9 10 2,116 0 2 386 8 3 1,005 4 6 6 0 0 1,081 1G 7 153 13 4 Totals 584,985 12 0 35,297 15 4 325,303 3 11 105,458 16 8 1,051,045 7 11 24,236 11 2 1,026,808 16 9 Less expenditure subsequent to 31st March, 1886, included to bring ths return up to date 4.0S5 5 2 13,318 5 1 6,S35 0 11 Expenditure to 31st March, 1885 580,902 6 10 35,297 15 4 311,981 18 10 98,023 15 9 Estimated liabilities 83,203 0 0 145,590 0 0 21,705 0 0 250,498 0 0 * Excludes net credits to Eangipo Waiu and Murimotn Lease Accounts, £963 10s. 2d. t Excludes £114 10s. transferred to account for fencing of Native reserves.