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

[No. 56.]

No. 56

Province of Auckland.

Return shewing Quantity and Quality of the Land purchased by the Native Department since June 1850.
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