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Table 25. —Return of Lands reserved and alienated under Acts or for Scrip.

Table 26. —Forfeitures and Surrenders during the Year ended the 31st March, 1898, showing under each Tenure the Number of Selectors who have forfeited and surrendered their Holdings, and the Area and Rental of such Holdings.

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iring the Year ended 31st March, l! S98. Total Area reserved, granted under Acts, &c, from the Foundation of the Colony to the 31st March, 1898. District. Area reserved for Various Purposes. I . . , Area granted Area granted , . Sati .* faotl(m under Acts. of Scrip Total Area alienated during the Year. Auckland .. Hawke's Bay Taranaki .. Wellington.. Nelson Marlborough Westland .. Canterbury.. Otago Southland .. A. B. p. 3,257 1 27 121 0 2 927 0 10 9,361 0 24 360 3 12 7,004 1 8 A. E. P. 19 1 3 983* 1 17 12 3 0 A. E. P. 60 0 0 A. B. P. 3,336 2 30 121 0 2 1,910 1 27 9,373 3 24 360 3 12 7,004 1 8 489 0 23 2,181 2 0 676 3 0 147 3 25 A. B. P. 3,243,462 2 18 241,842 3 11 582,660 2 5 828,311 0 38 •195,391 3 30 192,604 0 16 102,411 2 39 816,434 0 1 592,551 1 19 589,985 3 28 2,000 2 0 676 3 0 147 3 25 489 0 23 181 0 0 Totals.. 1,685 2 3 60 0 0 25,602 1 31 7,385,656 1 5 23,856 3 28 * In last year's ret: Nelson Land District, irn there was wrongly included 68; iver which the freeholds had been ac ,736a. Or. 35p., being the deferred-payment lands in the squired.

Forfeitures. Surrenders. Tenure. Number. Area. Annual Rental. Number. Area. Annual Rental. Deferred payments Perpetual lease Occupation with right of purchase Oease in perpetuity Agricultural lease Occupation lease, Mining Districts Act tillage settlement, perpetual lease tillage settlement, occupation with right of purchase i/illage settlement, lease in perpetuity tillage-homestead special settlement Special-settlement association :mproved-farm special settlement Homestead Small grazing-runs Pastoral runs 2 29 48 59 i 4 3 A. B. P. 16 1 36 9,181 0 6 9,093 3 25 18,751 0 35 56* 2 0 49 2 15 110 £ s. d. 2 8 8 335 18 8 466 8 8 606 12 0 2 *2 9 9 9 0 110 3 19 18 19 1 2 A. B. P. 608 0 0 2,845 1 34 1,915 1 3 8,784 0 24 16 3 5 60 1 29 £ s. d. 30 8 0 145 4 10 86 2 2 304 13 8 0 8 6 2 18 8 37 523 3 1 54 4 4 1 23 0 14 2 15 6 16 473 1 29 52 15 3 138 114 27,190 3 24 9,566 1 39 1,132 19 2 (not supplied) 32 30 6,312 0 0 2,655 1 24 200 15 0 (not supplied) 4 13 9,777' 2 17 146,606 0 0 246 i2 8 (not supplied) 4 33 18,483* 1 6 502,285 3 30 32l' 2 8 (not supplied) Totals .. 468 231,288 0 27 2,910 12 2 162 543,989 3 9 1,094 9 0 Cheviot EstateLease in perpetuity Village-homestead speoial settlement 1 1 24 0 0 10 0 0 7 4 0 6 0 0 jand for Settlements Aots— Lease in perpetuity Lease in perpetuity, village Speoial settlement association .. 3,230 2 10 38 0 18 396 0 0 593 6 6 31 15 2 23 10 6 9 295 1 6 106 2 2 56 5 2 Totals .. 3,572 8 4 171 544,285 0 15 1,200 11 2 533 234,986 3 15