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Number of Subsidized Prospectors, the Amount of Subsidy granted and paid, also the Character and Result of such Prospecting Operations, from 1st April, 1915. to 31st March, 1916.

Xame of Prospecting Party. Xuinber of Prospectors. Locality of Operations. Amount of Subsidy granted. ! 3£ f e ssss. »—-«—■ Character of Operations. Remarks. I j I I Northern Inspection District. Hauraki Prospecting Association — Luhrs and Ryan Ross and Anderson Turnbull and Martin (VKeefe and party Dominion Gold-mining Company Success Development Syndicate Power and party .. Hauraki Reefs Gold-mining Company McGregor and party West Coast Inspection District. A. B. Alford and others Alpine Consolidated Company .. H. A. Bauke and party Blackumer Bros. Energetic Extended Svndicafe . No. 2 Etheredge and party .. 2 2 2 3 3 2 4 2 4 4 2 2 4 2 £ s. d. £ s. d. Mahakirau. Coromandel ! £1.000 at £2 239 0 0 Waihi-Whangamata f subsidy for £1 s*u bThames .. .. scribed Karangahake .. .. 37 10 0 34 10 0 37 10 0 37 10 0 Waitekauri (May Bell claim) 125 0 0 50 0 0 Coromandel .. 50 0 0 33 15 0 125 0 0 Horahora .. .. 26 (I 0 26 0 0 Deep Creek. Marlborough .. 104 0 0 27 6 8 Eight-mile Creek. Lyell .. . 200 0 0 Seddon's Terrace. Rimu . . 27 10 0 Hatters. Stafford .. . . 212 10 0 15 12 0 Murray Creek. Reefton .. 125 0 0 49 15 0 Ross . . .. .. 80 0 0 10 0 0 Ft, Ft. Quartz 138 Subsidy on 150ft.: total d riven. 1.842 ft, 677 (total) 135 Scheelite Quartz ' Alluvial 208 199 , .. | Quartz 50 .. Alluvial Several small loaders were intersected yielding good dish prospects. Surface prospect- J A number of low-grade lodes vary ing between 18 in. in" and driving ' to 4 ft. in thickness were dsieovered. Prospecting the country between the heads of Kftraka and Gtanui Creeks ; nothing of value discovered. Driving .. Loose boulders of surface quartz having high assay value were found, but driving through disturbed country proved nothing of value, and work was abandoned. .. .. .. A large lode visible on the surface was expected to live downwards, but 1,842 ft. was driven in very hard country and failed to intersect such lode. The company expended several thousand pounds in this unsuccessful but legitimate exploration. The subsidy was on the last 150 ft. driven. .. ] A low-level crosscut driven 500 ft, without success was subsidized for a further 350 ft. At about 647ft. in an 18in. lode value £4 16s. per ton was intersected. The lode sought for is believed to be ahead of the present face. To intersect a 2 ft. lode on the Tokatea main range a subsidy on 200ft. of driving was granted, so far nothing of value has been proven. ,, . . The drive is now being advanced on ore. : Lode of no value ; cut in several places. Trenching and driv- A quartz lode carrying gold and scheelite has been ing found about two miles north of the Dominion Mine. The prospects so far are favourable. Driving .. i A crosscut to intersect the Alpine line of lode north ot the old workings. Auriferous leaders have been found. „ In progress. „ To test an alluvial terrace. Prospects of success reported favourable. ,, . . Prospecting for lodes at Murray Creek, north of the Energetic shaft. Three small lode shave been driven on, but so far nothing payable has been fcund. „ .. \ Alluvial prospecting between Mont D'Or and Mikonui. The ground has now been taken up by the Mont D'Or Company.