✨ Crown Lands Annual Report
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XXIII TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1876. No. 27.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd July, 1876.
The following Reports referred to in the Superintendent’s Memorandum, published in a Provincial Government Gazette of 17th June, 1876, are published by His Honor’s command.
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.
ANNUAL REPORT OF CROWN LANDS COMMISSIONER.
Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1876.
Sir,—
I have the honor to furnish for your information the following report relative to the operations of the Land and Survey Departments for the financial year ending 31st March last.
During the year the Crown lands sold at public auction and by application include an area of 44,537a. 3r. 83p., yielding in cash £32,194 2s. 9d., in scrip £480, to which the sum of £20 1s. 8d. has been received for transfer fees, making a total land revenue of £32,694 4s. 5d., the classification and average price being—
| A. | R. | P. | £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town lands ... | 67 | 2 | 24½ | at | 28 | 8 |
| Suburban ... | 506 | 1 | 0 | at | 3 | 0 |
| Rural and Pastoral ... | 43,963 | 3 | 24 | at | 0 | 10 |
Return marked A supplies detailed particulars.
The preparation and issue of Crown grants has confirmed the belief expressed in my last report. During the above-named period 343 Crown grants have been passed through the office for the signature of his Excellency, including an area of 124,778a. 2r. 14p., being two-thirds more in number and double the acreage of the previous year.
For the current year no addition will need to be made to the present office staff. Since November last the department has been worked with one clerk less than formerly, but pending the extinguishment of the Native title over the many large blocks of Native land, the purchase of which is still under negotiation by the Crown, and the completion of the Crown Grant maps by the Survey Department, this vacancy will not require to be filled up.
The strength of the Survey Department, having regard to the importance of the work in hand, should not be reduced. The unfinished work of the past thirty years is now advancing to completion, and provided the Chief Surveyor can retain the present officers, and continue to give his earnest and painstaking oversight for, say, eighteen months more, there are good grounds for believing that the reproach which for so many years has attached to this branch of the public service will be entirely removed.
Between the 1st of January and the 31st of May, 1877, the following officers (if then in Government employ) will have completed the five years’ service under an agreement
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1876, No 27
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🗺️ Annual Report of Crown Lands Commissioner
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey6 June 1876
Crown lands, land sales, survey department, land revenue, Crown grants
- Henry Bunny, Provincial Secretary