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basis and are designed to consolidate the land holdings of both Arabs and Jews.

(b) Transactions involving the transfer by way of sale of 924 dunums were approved on the ground that such transfers were necessary for the consolidation of existing Jewish holdings. In these cases the transfer ot land by way of exchange on a dunum for dunum basis was impracticable.

(c) Permission was given to transfer 604 dunums of land relating to transactions which had been initiated bona fide in the Land Registries prior to the publication of the Regulations.

(d) Under clause (bl of the first proviso to Regulation 3, a total of 40 dunums were transferred Lo a cemetery board for the construction of a new cemetery for jerusalem and to the Latin Patriarchate for the purpose of building a church, a convent, a boys' school, etc., in Jerusalem and Ramie.

94. Coming now to zone R, in which transfers from Arabs to non-Arabs are restricted, the analysis shows that of the 10,877 dunums of land for the transfer of which approval was granted -

(a) 1,430 dunums represented exchanges of properties and so resulted in no decrease in the gross area of land in Arab hands.

(b) Transactions involving the transfer by way of sale of 3,101 dunums were approved on the ground that such transfers were necessary for the consolidation of existing Jewish holdings.

(c) Permission was given to transfer 6,346 dunums of land relating to transactions which had been initiated bona fide in the Land Registries prior to the publication of the Regulations.

95. The following statement sets out the areas covered by applications made for the transfer of land under the Land Transfers Regulations which have been rejected by the High Commissioner since February, 1940, the date of the promulgation of these Regulations.

ZONE / 1940-41l::=:R1943-44}~==1119.~5;;;.~~ I TOTAL

I Dunums I Dunums 1-Dunums I Dunums I Dunums I Dunums I Dunums

A 5,255 321 5,885 949 204 80 12,694

B - 364 10,592 11,394 9 5,685 28,044

96. Of the 12,694 dunums of land in zone A for the transfer of which approval was withheld-

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