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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Drainage and Tailings Channels. Drainage-channel, Lawrence (total cost, approximate) Subsidy towards purchase of Messrs. Laidlaw and Crawford's freehold in Spotti's Creek, to allow tailings to be deposited (Tinker's Diggings) Damage by floods, Thames Sludge-channel, Smith's Gully, Bannockburn Bound Hill Sludge-channel survey Compensation to J. Costello, damage done by tailings Long Gully Sludge-channel New Pipeclay Gully Sludge-channel Kumara Sludge-channel No. 2 Ophir Tail-race .. .. .. • • Lawrence Drainage-channel Tailings-outlet, Maerewhenua Ross Sludge and Storm-water Channel Kuaotunu Sludge-channel (£1 for £1) Branch tail-race to No. 4 Channel Rimu Drainage-channel Kumara Sludge-channel No. 4 Donnelly's Creek Tail-race Muddy Creek Channel Drain, Te Aroha West Kumara Sludge-channel No. 5 and extension Waimumu Main Tail-race Compensation, Owen Roberts .. .. .. ■ .. Charlton Main Tail-race & s. d. 3,000 0 0 500 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 52 19 7 788 0 0 150 0 0 4,547 18 0 2,762 17 2 2,300 0 0 1,150 0 0 1,595 4 0 1,675 10 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 1,200 0 0 1,657 0 0 2,000 0 0 200 0 0 5,654 15 11 3,502 13 5 75 0 0 1,362 17 7 £ s. d. 2,000 0 0 400 0 0 500 0 0 251 1 0 52 19 7 788 0 0 100 0 0 773 19 0 2,762 17 2 1.150 0 0 1,092 9 0 1,595 4 0 1,675 10 6 200 0 0 100 0 0 191 19 6 1.151 10 8 444 4 5 1,000 0 0 61 0 0 5,654 15 11 1,339 13 0 75 0 0 408 7 1 37,174 16 2 23,768 10 10 Aid towards the Treatment of Ores. Testing-plant, School of Mines, Thames Testing minerals, Dunedin Exhibition Testing-battery, Mercury Bay Public crushing-plant (Coromandel School of Mines) Maoriland Gold-mining Syndicate, erection of battery Publio Battery, Kuaotunu 1,200 0 0 192 8 9 915 1 4 906 0 5 248 7 6 200 0 0 600 0 0 142 8 9 915 1 4 906 0 5 248 7 6 200 0 0 3,661 18 0 3,011 18 0 Aid towards Construction of Telephone-lines. Bannockburn to Nevis 60 0 0 50 0 0 Water-conservation on Goldfields. Reports on Drainage, Ross Flat Coromandel Harbour and Kuaotunu Sludge-channels Eweburn Reservoir Mackeytown Water-supply Waitekauri Water-supply Karangahake Water-supply Clyde Water-supply .. .. .. .. Home Gully Dam Thames Drainage Board (contribution) Alexandra Water-supply 284 10 8 80 12 6 16,459 15 10 351 0 0 445 2 5 607 6 5 1,121 13 2 1,028 0 6 1,000 0 0 600 0 0 284 10 8 80 12 6 16,459 15 10 351 0 0 445 2 5 607 6 5 1,121 13 2 1,028 0 6 1,000 0 0 600 0 0 21,978 1 6 21,978 1 6 Works wholly constructed by Mines Department. Construction of road, Arrowtown to Macetown Road to open up Woodstock Goldfield Ahaura to Amuri Waikaia Bush Road Waitahuna Bridge Merrivale tracks Mokihinui to Specimen Creek Wilberforce Quartz-reef Road Opening Mokau River Lyell to Mokihinui Brighton to Seventeen-mile Beach Wangapeka to Karamea Hatter's Terrace to Bell Hill Cedar Creek Road Owen Valley Road Cobden to Seventeen-mile Beach Cedar Creek Road Bridle-track to Upper Anatoki .. .. .. Whacgamata Road Karangahake through Gorge ., Arthur's Point to Skipper's Tracks to Coal Island Grey Valley to Teremakau Rimu to New Rush .. ... Tapu to Waikawau Puhipuhi Road 9,270 6 8 1,000 0 0 2,504 19 7 1,000 0 0 750 0 0 500 0 0 1,238 7 5 1,830 17 7 552 8 0 5,098 8 6 1,789 7 2 2,000 0 0 500 0 0 3,000 0 0 2,208 9 2 3,036 1 4 1,500 0 0 722 8 0 141 10 6 1,000 0 0 12,167 4 1 54 6 3 900 0 0 829 17 9 750 10 0 1,396 17 9 9,270 6 8 1,000 0 0 2,504 19 7 1,000 0 0 750 0 0 500 0 0 1,238 7 5 1,830 17 7 552 8 0 5,098 8 6 1,789 7 2 2,000 0 0 500 0 0 3,000 0 0 2,208 9 2 3,036 1 4 1,500 0 0 722 8 0 141 10 6 1,000 0 0 12,167 4 1 54 6 3 900 0 0 829 17 9 750 10 0 1,396 17 9