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(2.) Government Prospecting-drills.

Type of Drill. Name of DrUl Superintendent. To whom lent. .Mineral Total sought for. : Depth drilled. Diameter of Bores. Character of Country pierced. Average Cost per Foot. Remarks. Keystone No. 2 G. E. D. Seale .. 8 F. B. Powell, Rimu Flat, near Hokitika Boretz Prospecting Syndicate, near Hokitika Rimu Options (Limited), Rimu No. 3 Claim, Rimu Flat Rimu Options (Limited), No. 2 Claim, Rimu Flat Ditto Rimu No. 1 Dredging Company, Rimu Flat Batson and party 7 , Kanieri Wilkinson and Young. Hatters, Stafford Linklater and party, Hatters, Stafford Kaitoke Prospecting Company (Limited) Liverpool Colliery 7 , No. I Alluvial gold 5, Ft. 372 116 In. 6 6 s. d. Tight river-bed gravel and large 5 6 Ver} 7 satisfactory, stones . River silt . . .. .. 9 2 Nil. No. 2 2 No. 1 26 •>■> 1,235 1,050 365 206 257 76 80 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 Tight river-bed gravel and other 10 6 Very satisfactory. fairly loose Tight river-bed gravel and large 10 3 „ stones Ditto .. .. 11 6 10 0 River-bed gravel and river silt 6 3 Fairly 7 satisfactory. River-bed gravel, tight, but not 37 6 Bore not completed. stoney Ditto .. .. .. 3 9 Poor. No. 2 ! 28 No. 3 No. 1 „ 8 5 No. 2 No. 3 „ 4 1 No. 3 1 Sullivan CN (diamond) W. Carter 1 Coal Coal Alluvial gold 111 424 80 174 390 2-5 2i 6 6 Country hard .. .. .. Country 7 not coal-bearing: drilling unwarranted; negative results. Sandstone, grit, and shaly mud- 5 5 Drilled for ventilators, very successful stone Shaly mudstone and sandstone 9 4 Hole abandoned : country faulted. Gravel and cement layers .. 18 4 Unsatisfactory; cost of transport very 7 heavy. ,, 9 10 Very satisfactory. Schramm- Harker (oildriven diamond drill) Ditto W. H. Warburton 2 Keystone Drill No. 3 » „ 1 4 Liverpool Colliery, No. 3a Section Malaya Tin Corporation Company (Limited) Rimu Options (Limited) I 9