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1—AGRICULTURE AND LAND TENURE.
Acre-Mje disposed ot during the year.
Granted
without
sale
—
•
i
Sold
Total
i
(1) 514
(2) 657
(3) 106
514
657
86
1,257
Amount Realised
& i. Cp.
857 5 8
31 19 0
185 0 6
1,074 5 5
Total Acreage at end of vear.
A lieu*ted
1,598,576
(approx.)
In Procesi
of
Alienation
) ' Total area
Unalienated
of the
Island
(
j
(a) 247,184
(approx.)
(b) 448,000
I
i
i
2,293,760
1
Remarks:—(1) Where waste land has been broken ap without previous permission and there has been less than 10
years occupation the full value as estimated at time of grant of title is taken. (2) If ten jears have
elapsed 2\ per cent, of the value is taken. (3) Sales by auction, cases of lands which have escheated
to the State by failure of heirs or where occupiers of waste lands have failed to pay equivalent value
on 2)_ per cent of it as above. Tlie above figures do not include Government bnildings or buildings
that escheated to the Crown and were sold.
(a) Rocky ancultivable land and cultivable land.
(&) Forests.
* NOTE.—When the area of the Island includes any large body of water, thit should be clearly stated. Tbe area of water should, if
possible, be gi**en separately.
Size of Holdings, specifyin-j the N u m b o r of Holdings."
Under 10 acres
11 to 50 acres
51 to 100 acres
101 to 1.000 acres
Orer 1,000 acres
The cadastral survey of the Island has noe been completed. Very few cultivated properties, except Farms and
Monastery lands, are over 10 acres. The average size of a cultivated plot is 2 acres and the average holding 7^ acres.
" State here the date to which these particulars relate.
YIELD OF ANIltAL PRODUCE DURING THE TEAR.
Produce
Butter ..
Cheese ..
Quantity
Olces
14,789
858,787
Farm value
48. per oke
ls. 7cp. per oke