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The following is a statement showing the number of subsidized prospectors, the amount of subsidy granted and paid, also the character and result of such prospecting operations, from the Ist April, 1916, to the 31st March, 1917 :—

-Name of Prospecting Party. Number of Prospectors. Locality of Operations. Amount of Subsidy granted. Amount of T»Nta.i>M> Subsidv instance Xature of claim, expended. anven. Character of Operations. Remarks. Northern Inspection District. Hauraki Prospecting Association — Tierney and Regan 2 £ s. d. Mahakirau, Coromandel .. £1,000, at £2 i 333 0 0 subsidy for I £1 s u b- j scribed Thames .. .. .. £166 13s. 4d., i Nil at 6s. 8d. per foot Coromandel .. .. £125, at 5s. 125 0 0 per foot . . £50, at 5s. per 50 0 0 foot Waitekauri .. .. £37 10s., at : Nil 7s. 6d. per foot May Bell Claim, Waitekauri £125 and £87 212 10 0 10s., at 5s. per foot £ s. d. Wakamarina .. .. 100 0 0 70 0 0 Ross .. .. .. 55 0 0 Wakamarina .. .. 166 13 4 166 13 4 100 0 0 Larrv"s Creek .. .. 66 13 4 20 0 0 Kanieri Forks .. 234 0 0 Hokitika .. .. 90 0 0 Kanieri .. .. .. 78 0 0 32 10 0 Ross .. .. .. 100 0 0 Wakamarina .. .. 78 0 0 45 10 0 .... 39 0 0 13 0 0 Reefton .. .. .. 41 13 4 Et. 300 Nil 500 200 Nil 850 210 500 00 Quartz Quartz Alluvial Quartz Alluvial Quartz Surface prospecting , ' So far nothing payable has been discovered. " Waitangi Gold-mining Company 7 6 Driving | Driving on 4 ft. lode, No. 2 level, hanging- wall portion carrying low values. Hauraki Reefs Gold-mining Com4 A short block of payable ore was opened up. pany P. Power and party 2 2 ft. lode intersected low-grade quartz. W. M. Wallnutt and party 2 Sinking To test lode exposed on surface in the vicinity of where good dish prospects can be obtained. Success Development Syndicate.. 2 Driving Driving still in progress, and although, according to survey, the distance has been driven, the main lode has not been cut. West Coast Inspection District. Mountain Camp partnership Allen and Roberts Deep Creek Syndicate Duffy and Pennington K. S. Hungerford G. W. Kellar.. Kulsen and Haviil Mount Greenland Syndicate M. and D. O'Keefe" .. Slattery 7 and Rasmussen Victoria Range Syndicate 4 2 6 4 2 6 2 2 5 2 2 4 Driving Driving Sinking Crosscut being driven to cut scheelite- bearing lode. No work started. Driving on reefs at Deep Creek, results poor. Work in progress, driving on two lodes. Driving in progress, on lode 3 ft. wide ; little gold. Thirty-two shafts sunk to date ; prospects payable. Work not started. Work in progress ; prospects good. Work in progress ; lode very patch} 7 . No results of value. Work abandoned, as lode cut out in winze. An increase of Is. 8d. per foot on remaining 500 ft. Driving Surface prospecting Sinking Southern Inspection District. Browne and party 7 2 Lawrence .. .. j 100 0 0 I 100 0 0 400 j Quartz Driving — ' A small leader showing coarse gold was found ■ when driven upon it cut out in all directions, and work was abandoned. Work in progress. Deep Dell Gold and Scheelite Mining Company Symes and party 2 2 Macrae's .. .. .. 120 0 0 11 0 8 Bald Hill Flat .. .. 92 0 0 92 0 0 Kawarau.. .. .. 87 10 0 52 0 0 34 210 Alluvial Surface prospecting and trenching Driving . . Work in progress. No discovery 7 of any value yet made. Prospecting for an auriferous lead on high-level terrace. Results unfavourable, and work abandoned Gordon and party 2