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No. 1. Report on Pareora Settlement, to 31st March, 1895: Canterbury Land District.— Total Area: 620 acres 2 roods 13 perches. Purchased from New Zealand and Australian Land Company. (New Zealand Gazette, 10th November, 1893, page 1592.) Land offered for selection, 27th December, 1893. Tenure: Lease in Perpetuity.

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w Block. District. Area. Capital Annual Value per Rental at Acre. 5 per Cent. Q a Name of Lessee. Value of Value of Improvements Improvements required at effected at End of End of First Year. First Year. Remarks. 1 XII. Otaio A. E. P. 26 3 38 £ s. d. 13 1 8 £ s. a. 17 13 6 18/1/94 Donald McKenzie .. £ s. a. 8 16 9 £ s. d. 43 4 0 Improvements consist of cottage, £12; fencing, £18 4s.; drains, £10; garden, £3 7s. Lessee married, and resident. 8 acres cultivated. Improvements consist of fencing only. Lessee married man, resides with wife on her section, No. 15. No cultivation. Improvements consist of fencing, £21 7s.; partly-erected house, £15 ; well, £4. Non-resident. About 17 acres cultivated. Lessee married woman. Dwellinghouse, £82 ; garden, &c, £3 ; fencing, £30 10s. Lessee married, and resident. 7 acres cultivated. Dwellinghouse, £36; garden, &c, £6; fencing and drains, £16. Lessee married, and resident. 5 acres cultivated. Dwellinghouse, £32 ; garden, &c, £5; fencing, £13 10s. Lessee married, and resident. About 3 acres cultivated. Improvements consist of dwellinghouse, £30; fencing, £7 15s. Lessee married, husband lessee of Section 8 ; resident. 4 acres cultivated. Improvements consist of fencing only. Lessee married, lives with his wife on adjoining section, No. 7. About 3 acres cultivated. Two sheds, £9; fencing, £8 15s. Lessee married, lives with her husband on Section 10, adjoining. 3 acres cultivated. Dwellinghouse on boundary Sections 9 and 10. Dwellinghouse, £63 ; fencing and well, £11 5s. Lessee married, and resident; wife lessee of Section 9. About 3 acres cultivated. Dwellinghouse on boundary of Sections 9 and 10. Improvements consist of fencing only. Lessee married man, resides with his wife, who is lessee of Section 26. No cultivation. Improvements consist of dwellinghouse, £37 ; fencing, £14 ; well and garden, £3 10s. Lessee married woman, resides with husband and family. 3 acres cultivated. Improvements consist of fencing only. Lessee a minor, lives with his mother on Section 23. 6 acres cultivated. Dwellinghouse, £33 ; fencing, £22; garden, £4. Lessee single man, and resident. 10 acres in cultivation. Dwellinghouse, £110; fencing, £14 10s. Lessee wife of J. O'Connor, lessee of Section 2 ; resident. No cultivation. Dwellinghouse, £60; sheds and tank, £16; fencing, £23 10s. Lessee married, and resident. 4 acres cultivated. Improvements consist of fencing only. Lessee husband of lessee of Section 3. 13 acres cultivated. Improvements consist of house, £15; garden and well, £6; fencing, £21 10s. Lessee married, and resident with family. 14 acres cultivated. 2 27 0 0 12 13 4 17 3 0 John O'Connor 8 11 6 14 0 0 3 27 0 0 12 13 4 17 3 0 Eliza Williams 8 11 6 40 7 0 i 29 0 0 13 0 0 18 18 6 John Arden 9 9 3 115 10 0 5 9 3 18 12 13 4 6 5 8 Henry Stowell 3 2 10 58 0 0 C 10 0 0 14 15 0 7 6 6 Henry Bateman 3 13 9 50 10 0 7 10 0 0 13 1 8 6 11 6 Elizabeth Deans 3 5 9 37 15 0 8 10 0 0 12 11 8 6 6 0 William Deans 3 3 0 8 5 0 9 & • • 10 0 0 13 5 0 6 12 6 I Hannah Sullivan 3 6 3 17 15 0 10 ft • • 10 0 0 13 5 0 6 13 0 Martin Sullivan 3 6 6 74 5 0 11 IV. Patiti 20 0 0 13 11 8 13 12 0 Alexander Hastie .. 6 16 0 15 0 0 12 18 2 32 13 5 0 12 8 10 Mary E. Hermer .. 6 4 5 54 10 0 13 H 15 0 0 12 16 8 9 13 6 James Connor 4 16 9 10 15 0 14 w 24 1 2 12 13 4 16 8 2 * James Bowie 8 4 1 59 0 0 15 XII. Otaio 28 0 0 13 6 8 18 16 8 " Mary O'Connor 9 8 4 124 10 0 16 27 3 38 12 10 0 17 10 0 Michael Riordan 8 15 0 99 10 0 17 IV. Patiti 27 1 7 13 5 0 18 1 8 m James C. Williams .. 9 0 10 16 2 0 18 28 3 29 13 1 8 19 0 0 rt Ellen Caswell 9 10 0 42 10 0 Carried for'd — 360 0 i 236 4 0 118 2 6 881 8 0