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REPORT of Crown Lands Commissioner on Land Revenue.
Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1872.
SIR,---
I have the honor to report for your Honor’s information that the Land Revenue of the Province of Wellington for the year ending 31st March, 1872, amounted to £14,864 15s. 1d., which sum was made up as follows :-
Cash Payments ........................ £11,594 15 1
Volunteer and other Scrip ............ 3,270 0 0
£14,864 15 1A Return furnishing the necessary details is herewith enclosed.
In addition to the sales included in the above Return, a selection of 100,000 acres of Crown Land in the Manawatu District has been made by Colonel Feilding on behalf of the “Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation, Limited,” of London, under an arrangement with the General Government, the terms and conditions of which you are acquainted with.
By your Honor’s Proclamation of June last, nearly the whole of the Crown Lands in the Province were withdrawn from sale, pending the completion of the surveys for the proposed rail and tramway lines, and it was not until the 26th February of the current year that this restriction was removed.
During the past year the difficulties which had so long debarred the members of “The Hutt Small Farm Association” from obtaining the land selected by them on the Rangitikei-Manawatu Block have been satisfactorily removed. The conditions of “The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871,” having been complied with by the Association, the members are now in legal occupation of their land.
Two Reports from the District Surveyor, Mr. Kelleher, have been forwarded to your Honor, with respect to the block of unsold Crown Land, situated between Masterton and the Seventy-Mile Bush, and estimated to contain 45,000 acres, a considerable portion of which is admirably adapted for a Special Settlement.
In order to give effect to Part I. of “The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871,” the following blocks of Crown Land have, by your Honor’s Proclamation of 25th January, 1872, been reserved for sale on deferred payments, viz, :-
10,000 acres Township of Fitzherbert, Manawatu
5,200 " " Palmerston, "
4,800 " " " "
5,943 " " Carnarvon, "
2,900 " " Sandon, "
16,317 " Rangitumau Block, Wairarapa.
The survey of some of these blocks is in progress, and it is proposed at an early date to throw them open for selection.
The preparation and issue of Crown Grants is a work which has been all but suspended for some months in consequence of the draughtsmen and clerks being engaged on the schedules and maps required by the Government for the use of the Assessors under “The District Highways Act, 1871.”
The enclosed Report from the Chief Surveyor, Mr. Jackson, will supply full information relating to the Survey Department.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner Crown Lands.
His Honor the Superintendent, Wellington.
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey16 April 1872
Land Revenue, Crown Lands, Wellington Province, Manawatu District, Hutt Small Farm Association
- Feilding (Colonel), Selected 100,000 acres of Crown Land
- Kelleher (Mr.), District Surveyor
- Jackson (Mr.), Chief Surveyor
- JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner Crown Lands