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The following is a table showing the quantity of quartz crushed and scheelite concentrates obtained for the year ended the 31st December, 1918:—

Petroleum. No development of commercial value occurred during the year as the result of oil-prospecting operations, and none of the existing bores yielded oil in payable quantity. The Taranaki Oil-wells (Limited) was engaged during the year recasing No. 5 bore with 8 in. pipe. No drilling was clone. During 1918 7,550 gallons of crude oil was obtained from No. 3 bore. The Blenheim Oil Company continued drilling its Blenheim borehole to a depth of 5,329 ft., the greatest depth attained in the Dominion. The Canterbury Petroleum Company, operating near Chertsey, continued drilling through gravel and conglomerate to a total depth of 1,820 ft. The Kotuku Oilfields Syndicate attained a depth of 3,466 ft. in the Waipatiki bore and obtained strong gas emissions.

I I I Name of Mine or Company. Locality. Quart/. , Scheelite Conconcrushed. I trates obtained. Value. larlborough — Dominion Consolidated Company Deep Creek Gold-mining Syndicate J. M. Cadigan.. .. Wakamarina .. ,, Tons. Tons. cwt. qr. lbs. 11,973 23 1 2 4 77 0 1 0 0 Concen- 4 0 0 0 trates. £ 4,761 23 800 ,, • ■ * * j. Whiting .. Topkouse 0 13 4 26 Hugo and Southland — Glenorohy Sclieelite Company, and five parties of miners John R. Tripp Sutherland and Hood Hall and Ross W. H. Long Black and MoPherson Grant and Sinclair Hood and Beasley Thomas Scurr Paulin and Tripp Huntly Groves Golden Point Gold-mining Company Deep Dell (jr. A. Carson A. Phelan F. A. .Smith Fraser and Gay tan Gaytan and Innes Hugh Fraser .. Phelan and McConuell Philip Donoghue A. A. Cookerell Cockerel! and Randall .. C. Brown .1. H. Evans Donaldson Bros, and Ellis D. Allan Stoneburn Mining Company Mareburn Mining Company R. A. Mathewson Pukerangi Mining Company U.S. Molineaux C. G. White .. Reefs Syndicate Glenorohy, Lake County .. .> •>■> >1 33 it )) 33 j; 3 jj »l 33 oi It .. it a a 3j .; • • Macrae's, Waihemo County 3. 33 ' it H ot 33 33 33 1,059 65 0 1 5 0 6 0 0 5 10 1 10 10 2 11 0 1 0 42 3 5 2 1 0 19 2 3 3 23 18 2 16 2 3 0 16 1 9 16 6 13 3 21 50 1 3 2 19 31 2 6 2 4 8 15 2 11 1| 0 6 2 8 2 0 10-2 1 8 10 2 9 20 5 3 2 1 14 2 18 1 22 9 0 15 0 2 4 0 12 3 27 6 1 6 3 1.1 3| 0 7 0 0 32" 4 10 I. 26 2 0 7 3 3 0 13 0 14 3?, 0 15 3 18 15 2 7 I 16 386 0 5 0 15 819 2 6 0 23 0 13 14 118 2 2 0 22 40 0 8 18 10 0 7 8 24 339 0 5 0 0 14,365 66 226 564 50 455 486 625 180 1,480 262 513 283 73 116 227 1,144 646 166 143 297 77 999 86 145 176 524 57 510 21 466 92 88 55 it 33 33 !» 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 it it 53 33 3? 33 33 33 3? Stoneburn, „ Hyde, The Beefs, Taieri County .. 31 33 • • 3 3 3 3 33 31 Totals, 1918 Totals, 1.917 .. 15,098 143 6 0 17 19,655 199 8 2 11 31,279 37,863 I lecrease 4,557 56 2 1 12 6,584 Certain of the above mines also p iroduced a quantity of gold.