One holding constituted by Board of Agriculture for Scotland-no old rent.

* Includes one Application for Compensation for damage or injury done in consequence of the constitution of Small Holdings by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, in which the amount claimed was £6,400, and the amount awarded £2,899.

TABLE SHOWING, according to COUNTIES, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS FOR RESUMPTION DISPOSED OF DURING

THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER 1927.

During the year First Fair Rents were fixed for 23 Landholders' Holdings extending to 182 acres arable, 305 acres outrun, 13,881 acres township pasture, and 4,928 acres general common pasture. The old Rents of these holdings (omitting shillings and pence) amounted to £136, and the Fair Rents to £121, the rate of reduction being almost 11 per cent. The arrears dealt with amounted to £2. 2s., of which £1. 1s. 3d. was ordered to be paid and £1. Os. 9d. cancelled, the percentage cancelled being fully 49 per cent. The average Fair Rent of these holdings is £5. 5s. 2d.

On the expiry of septennial periods, 165 Landholders' Holdings were re-valued. These extended to 1,560 acres arable, 833 acres outrun, 36,111 acres township common pasture, and 36,472 acres general common pasture. The Old Rents of these holdings. amounted to £717. (See footnotes to Statistical Table on page 15.) First Fair Rents fixed in various years amounted to £922. The Fair Rents fixed in 1927 amounted to £888, an average of £5. 7s. 7d., and a decrease of almost 4 per cent. on the First Fair Rents.

First Equitable Rents were fixed for 8 Statutory Small Tenants' holdings, the total area being 97 acres arable, 7 acres