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

Nelson

Nelson.

In the Town of Nelson there are fifty-three reserves of one acre each, and one hundred of fifty-acre sections in the suburban and rural districts. Of this extent, 37½ acres in the Town of Nelson are let to Europeans for terms varying from seven to ten and fourteen to twenty-one years. Of the rural and suburban land, 654 acres are let in the Town of Nelson. Three acres and a half are occupied by Natives, and in the Motueka and Moutere Districts 634 acres. Niue hundred and twenty-four acres are granted to the Bishop of New Zealand in trust for an industrial school, leaving unoccupied 2,787 acres of country and 12 acres of town land.

The annual rental from those reserves amounts at present to £274 3s., and the management of them devolves on the Hon. Major Richmond, the Crown Commissisoner of Nelson, who has kindly favoured me with the returns from which the information is taken, and of which I beg to enclose copies.