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No. 8. Table showing the Different Classes of Coal from the Mines in the Dominion.

No. 9. Return showing the Quantity and Value of Coal imported into and exported from New Zealand during the Year ended the 31st December, 1909.

No. 10. Number of Persons ordinarily employed in Mining during the Years ended 31st December, 1908 and 1909.

Name of Coal. Output of Coal. Increase. Decrease. Approximate Total Output of Coal up to the 31st December, 1909. 1909. 1908. Bituminous and semi-bituminous Pitch Tons. 1,257,233 5,473 559,509 89,032 Tons. 1,205,212 17,459 539,141 99,163 Tons. 52,021 20i368 Tons. 11,986 Tons. 17,054,379 1,976,603 8,709,329 1,279,453 Brown Lignite 10,131 Totals 1,911,247 1,860,975 50.272 29,019.764

Imported. Exporti id. Countries whence imported. Quantity. Value. Countries to which exported. Quantity. Value. United Kingdom .. New South Wales .. Victoria South Australia U.S.A. West Coast Tons. 106 257,271 2 806 £ 204 252,404 8 464 1 United Kingdom .. Victoria New South Wales Western Australia Tasmania Fiji South Seas Tons. £ 138,429 i 184,227 4,859 '■ 3,770 27,769 ! 21,366 5,493 ' 4,485 3,450 8,277 5,108 ! 4,281 16,577 12,555 Totals .. Totals .. 201,685 ! 183,961 258,185 253,081 I

District. Alluvial Miners. European. Chinese. i — i Quartz-miners. Totals. Grand Totals. European.! Chinese. European. Chinese. 1908. ; 190 1 .). GOLD-MINES. 1 UCKLAND— Coromandel Thames Paeroa.. Te Aroha Tauranga Waihi .. 115 .. 115 .. 130 115 241 .. 241 .. 487 241 475 .. 475 .. 718 475 23 2 1,947 .. 1,947 .. 1,904 1,947 2,778 .. 2,778 .. i 3,264 2,778 Iarlborough— Blenheim and Havelock 18 48 51 48 Ielson— Takaka Collingwood Inangahua Ahaura Charleston Westport, including Addison's, Northern Terraces, Waimangaroa, North Beach, Mokihinui, ■ Karamea, and Lower Buller Valley Lyell .. Murchison Owen .. 1 30 133 50 250 ! 35 76 20 25 55 61 55 785 .. 994 50 1,030 1,044 250 35 300 285 63 "25 785 95 5 .. loo .. lie ioo 5 15 .. 43 58 60 58 43 120 ; 21 120 21 j 152 141 719 : 106 858 1,577 106 1,802 1,683