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Table 4.— Analysis of Holdings taken up during the Year ended 31st March, 1902.

98

Average Holdings of Selectors. Tenure. No. of Selectors. No. of Selectors No. of Selectors 501 to 1,000 1,001 Acres Acres. and upwards. No. of Selectors under 1 Acre. No. of Selectors 1 to 50 Acres. No. of Selectors 51 to 250, Acres. No. of Selectors 251 to 500 Acres. Obdinary Crown Lands — Cash lands Deferred payment Perpetual lease Occupation with right of purchase Lease in perpetuity Agricultural lease Occupation lease under " The Mining Districts Land Occupation Act 1894 " Village settlement, cash .. .. .. ,. Village settlement, occupation with right of purchase '.'. Village settlement, lease in perpetuity Village-homestead special settlement .. .. Special-settlement associations Improved-farm special settlement Small grazing-runs Pastoral runs Thermal springs, Rotorua Miscellaneous leases and licenses 488 1 1 447 241 1 *78 21 1 32 30 158 1 17 219 1 64 30 1 66 4 1 30 27 83 1 208 115 12 21 108 66 5 47 23 2 20 6 1 3 1 •■ •■ 9 9 25 54 1 1 5 1 2 3 6 20 40 440 26 222 121 53 9 9 Total 1,869 206 675 547 251 Cheviot Estate — Cash lands Lease in perpetuity Village-homestead special settlement Grazing- farms Miscellaneous 3 1 93 97 - 2 - - - Land for Settlements Acts — Cash lands Lease in perpetuity Lease in perpetuity, village .. .. .[ Small grazing-runs Pastoral runs Miscellaneous ••...'.' 1 257 22 14 1 1 115 50 48 29 1 2 14 1 2 1 1 1 10 Grand totals 2,166 3 223 600 806 299 111 127 * Includes seven selectors of Endowment Lands in Nelson Distri.