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

Enclosure

Enclosure.

Summary of Transaotions in Arawa Districts, Land Purchase Department Purchases;

Mohaka.—Two blocks, 47,000 acres. One block surveyed and title completed, one unsurreyed and balance in hand.
Taupo.—Four blocks, 40,000 acres. All surveyed and titles completed; Native reserve not yet surveyed.
Rotorua.—One block, 20,000 acres. Unsurveyed, and balance in hand.
Maketu.—Four blocks, 90,000 acres. Two blocks surveyed and two partially; balance in hand upon each block.
Matata.—Eleven blocks, 20,000 acres. Surveyed and titles completed.
Total 217,000 acres.

Note.—The foregoing twenty-two blocks contain 217,000 acres, of which sixteen blocks are completed; area, 70 000 acres; average price, 1s. 10½d. per acre. The remaining sir blocks are undergoing adjustment of Native claims, in order that satisfactory and final payments of the balances of the consideration moneys be made, and the area of these six is about 147,000 acres; average price, 2s. per acre, ranging from 10d. to 4s. per acre.

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Leases.

The leases comprise sixteen blocks, containing 980,000 acres, six blocks of which, containing 235,000 acres, are completed, at an average annual rental for the first seven years of ¼d. per acre in Taupo, and 1d per acre in the Bay of Plenty.

In Rotorua District chiefly, ten blocks remain to be completed, containing 750,000 acres, at an annual rental of ½d per acre.