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An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand

No. 46. — Native Land Purchase Department

page 163

No. 46.
Native Land Purchase Department.

Abstract of Lands Purchased from the Natives between the 5th July, 1850, and 31st March, 1856.
Province Area in Acres. Sums Paid. Sums Payable. Totals. Grand Total of each Province.
Cash. Scrip. Totals. Cash. Scrip. Total. Cash. Scrip.
£ s. d. £ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ £ s. d.
Auckland 532,814 23,389 18 0 23,389 18 0 7,215 0 0 7,215 0 0 30,604 18 0 30,604 18 0
New Plymouth 31,015 6,253 0 0 6,253 0 0 6,253 0 0 6,253 0 0
Wellington 3,391,065 47,043 17 0 47,043 17 0 10,365 0 0 10,365 0 0 57,408 17 0 57,408 17 0
Nelson 8,000,000 6,787 0 0 750 7,587 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 6,987 0 0 750 7,737 0 0
Canterbury
Otago 6,000,000 2,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 2,000 0 0
Total 17,954,894 85,473 15 0 750 86,223 15 0 17,780 0 0 17,780 0 0 103,253 15 0 750 104,003 15 0

Note.—The estimated area of the various purchases is not to be relied on as accurate, as many of the blocks have not been surveyed. Descriptions of the land have been given as correctly as possible; but from the want of a topographical survey of the country, the proportions of level, hilly, good and bad land, &c., could not be stated. Purchases made in the Auckland Province prior to March, 1854, are not included in the accompanying returns. The contingent expenditure connected with the purchases is not included in these returns.

Donald McLean,

Chief Commissioner for the Purchase of Land from the Natives.