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APPENDICES.

APPENDIX No. I.—ADMINISTRATION.

EXTEACTS FEOM THE EEPOETS OF THE COMMISSIONEES OF CEOWN LANDS ON SETTLEMENT OPEEATIONS DUEING THE TWELVE MONTHS ENDED THE 31st MAECH, 1899. AUCKLAND. The land transactions and the progress of settlement for the past year have been very successful, as the usual summary appended below will disclose. It is true that the total area selected is not so great as last year by 17,149 acres, simply because the single pastoral run of 50,000 acres which appeared in last year's return brought up the area to a greater volume than this year ; yet bond fide settlement has progressed at a much greater rate, as the following comparisons will show, by taking settlement under the two heads of "occupation with right of purchase" and "lease in perpetuity": Occupation with right of purchase —1897-98, 186 selectors, for 31,993 acres; 1898-99, 205 selectors, for 44,189 acres. Lease in perpetuity—lB97-98, 75 selectors, for 16,355 acres ; 1898-99, 105 selectors, for 25,702 acres. Showing that 21,543 acres have been selected by forty-nine bond fide settlers in excess of last year. The revenue from all sources has exceeded the estimate by £5,000. Of course it is not equal to last year's by some £12,000, but this is entirely owing to the cessation of sales of kauri timber. Last year the revenue from this source was £15,774, whilst for the past year the total timber sales only amounted to £3,672. The ordinary revenue is therefore very much larger than last year's.

Summary of Land Transactions during the Year 1898-99.

Survey-fees not included in above received during year for—Cash, £204 12s. Bd. ; occupation with right of purohase, £422 15s. lOd.; lease in perpetuity, £297 lis. Bd.; mining distriots occupation leases, £85 10s.; total. £810 15s. 2d. I—c. 1.

Transactions during the Year. Area held on 31st March, 1899. Revenue received during the Year. Class of Selection. Number. Area. Number. Area. Cash— Town ... Suburban Rural ... 20 16 93 A. 41 574 11,025 B. P. 3 27 2 35 1 24 A. E. P. £ s. d. Total cash Deferred payment ... Perpetual lease Perpetual lease, freehold Occupation, right of purchase Lease in perpetuity Lease in perpetuity under Land for Settlements Act Mining districts occupation ... Agricultural leases Village - homestead special settlement Special - settlement associations — Deferred payment Perpetual lease Lease in perpetuity Improved-farm settlements ... Homesteads Small grazing-runs... Pastoral runs Miscellaneous leases, lands for settlement, year-to-year lease Miscellaneous leases Timber sold (47 trees and 190 Tramway, Tokatoka Swamp... Thermal springs Coal Tanekaha bark Other sources 129 11,642 0 6 168 648 19,109 2 5 148,788 1 34 *5,588 17 3 2,096 17 8 3,724 15 4 8,378 12 0 3,123 18 11 1,714 1 3 1,499 17 5 30 205 105 36 18,547 0 24 44,188 2 29 25,702 1 28 7,927 3 19 1,141 634 98 215,855 1 19 120,368 0 30 15,493 2 7 9 555 0 0 32 7 130 1,743 0 1 625 2 7 5,334 0 2 12 14 0 404 10 10 1 134 0 38 6 2 98 57 20 10 19 7 705 1 3 100 0 0 17,635 1 0 5,428 0 10 2,221 0 13 58,061 0 0 120,460 0 27 151 2 29 111 8 10 6 5 0 70 5 0 76 14 6 "8 7 5,549' 0 0 151 2 29 437 7 6 56 10 0 14 8 6 7 525 0 26 6,269,670 ft. 71 2,174 0 6 305 15 1 3,672 3 8 151 3 11 1,351 13 6 810 12 0 5 8 6 1,906 11 2 sleepers) "29 87 2 28 47,226 tons 13-26 215 5,614 0 26 Total areas, &c. „ coal „ timber (47 trees, 190 „ bark 566 sleepers) 115,010 3 27 47,226 tons 6,269,670 ft. 13-26 tons 3,363 739,868 1 19 35,520 11 10 * Not includim £150 in scri"