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APPENDIX.
A.
RETURN showing Rate of Increment of Revenue receivable from the Toll Gate, Kaiwarrawarra during the last four years.
1st May, 1870, to 31st May, 1871, let at per annum ... £1650 0 0
1st June, 1871, to 31st May, 1872, let at per annum ... 1775 0 0
1st June, 1873, to 28th February, 1873, let at per annum ... 2000 0 0
1st March, 1873, to 28th February, 1874 ... 2250 0 0
CHAS. P. POWLES,
Assistant Provincial Treasurer.
Provincial Treasury,
Wellington, 26th April, 1873.
B.
REPORT OF CROWN LANDS COMMISSIONER.
Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1873.
SIR,—
I have the honor to furnish for the information of your Honor, the following report relative to the working of my department, during the financial year ending 31st March, 1873.
LAND SALES.
The land sales of town, rural, and suburban sections for the financial year, ending 31st March, 1873, amounted to 61,310 acres 1 rood 37 perches, which realized the sum of £23,748 14s 9d. The enclosed schedule will supply detailed particulars.
In addition to the foregoing sales, a block of 4000 acres in the Wairarapa District, in the Seventy Mile Bush, has been purchased by the General Government, for occupation by the Scandinavian Immigrants. For this Block the sum of £3000 has been paid to the Provincial Treasurer, and will be brought to account by the Receiver of Land Revenue, whenever the General Government have decided in whose name the application shall be registered.
SPECIAL SETTLEMENTS.
During the past year the General Government at the request of your Honor and Executive, have sanctioned the setting apart of three blocks of land in the Manawatu District, as Special Settlements, viz:—
- A block of about 8000 acres situated at Foxton, for the members of an association formed in England, the objects of which are “the growth, cultivation, and manufacture of New Zealand Phormium Tenax” upon a large scale. The price of the land is one pound per acre, ten shillings per acre of which was paid at the time of application. The balance is to be paid by annual installments extending over a period of 3
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1873, No 10
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Opening Speech of the Wellington Provincial Council
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government5 May 1873
Provincial Council, Wellington, Superintendent, Speech, Policy Review, Immigration, Railways, Land Administration
💰 Rate of Increment of Revenue from Kaiwarrawarra Toll Gate
💰 Finance & Revenue26 April 1873
Revenue, Toll Gate, Kaiwarrawarra, Financial Report
- CHAS. P. POWLES, Assistant Provincial Treasurer
🗺️ Report of Crown Lands Commissioner
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey8 April 1873
Land Sales, Crown Lands, Wairarapa, Special Settlements, Scandinavian Immigrants, Manawatu
- Crown Lands Commissioner