No. 56
Province of Auckland.
Quality. | Quantity. | Total. |
Acres. | Acres. | |
Agricultural | 310,466 | |
Grazing | 108,162 | |
Forest | 191,963 | |
Average | 213,761 | |
Poor, broken, and sandy | 26,250 | |
Hilly | 52,519 | |
Swampy | 28,046 | |
931,167 | ||
Quality not stated | 145,541 | |
Lands acquired prior to organization of Land Purchase Department (including old land claims) | 883,266 | |
Total | 1,959,974 |
Acres. | |
Number of acres alienated to Europeans, to 31st March, 1859 | 592,766 |
Number of acres fenced, December, 1858 | 90,447 |
Number of acres under cultivation, December, 1858 | 60,182 |
Return shewing Quantity and Quality of Lands in the possession of the Provincial Government on the 1st January, 1859
Description. | Quantity. |
Acres. | |
Mountainous land of inferior soil or coarse clay | 170,217 |
Interfered with by unsettled cases in the Land Claims Court | 40,000 |
Lands of which the survey is deferred until the adjoining land is purchased, or Native claims adjusted | 13,000 |
Lands reserved on account of Keri-keri Settlement | 24,740 |
Remains of blocks of inferior land not deemed worth surveying | 39,900 |
Lands for survey | 344,224 |
Total | 632,081 |