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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 1st April, 1918, to the 31st March, 1919 :—

Name of Prospecting Party. Number of Pro- Locality of Operations. Amount of Subsidy grranted. specters. I Amount Of Tti«tjlllee Subsidv "Si,.; Nature of Claim. Character of Operations, expended. driven. Remarks. Northern Inspection District. Waitangi Gold-mining Company^ Muir's Gold Reefs W. S. C.'Niehol 6 25 25 2 I Thames Te Puke £166 13s. 4d., at 6s. Sd. per foot £100, at 6s. Sd. per foot £380, at 6s. 8d. per foot £50, at 5s. per foot £36, at £1 10s. each for three months £ s. d. Ft. I 166 13 4 500 Quartz 100 0 0 300 380 0 0 1,140 38 0 0 152 36 0 0 Driving .. Driving on lode; average width, 4ft. Assay shows average value £1 per ton. „ .. Driving upon 5 ft lode. Value, about £3 per ton. ,, .. Driving upon 5 ft. lode. Value, about £2 per ton. .. „ .. After driving 152ft. work suspended. Nothing payable discoyercd. Surface prospecting Work in progress. Nothing payable so far discovered. Waitekauri C. Wells and G. Blvtlic 2 Cabbage Bay West Coast Inspection District. Consols 2 Lyall £ s. d. I - Batson and party Dominion Consolidated Development Company Fiddes and Jordan M. D. O'Keeffe Webster and party Westland Gold-prospecting Syndicate T. Waugh 2 2 2 1 1 6 Hokitika Wakamarina Ahaura ... .... Deep Creek Back Creek j\rahura and Lake Kanieri Body" Town 75 0 0 243 6 S 120 0 0 £110 and £60 173 6 8 77 13 4 233 Quartz 11 0 6 147 Alluvial 74 0 0 296 Quartz 26 0 0 17 10 0 40 4 0 26 Ailuvial 264 15 0 800 202 13 4 608 Quartz 24 13 4 74 162 10 0 Driving .. Driving on reef 250 ft. below old Tyr Connel tunnel. Small bodies of quartz encountered. ,, .. Nothing of value located. .. i ,, .. Driving on reef, Empire City claim. Good values opened up. General prospecting. Nothing of value found. Driving .. Small values found for considerable distance, but nothing rich enough for blocking out. Sinking .. Shaft-sinking on ailuvial prospect. Values of payable nature said to have been got. For prospecting (500 ft. of driving). Driving .. Royal Standard reef intersected and proved gold-bear-ing, but no discovery of importance made. ,, .. Driving to cut scheelite vein ; work in progress. Surface prospecting No discovery of importance made. and trenching Driving .. Driving on scheelite lode ; work in progress. Southern Inspection District. Otago Central Gold-mines Deep Dell Consolidated Company R. Symes and party .. ,-;,*. .. Pukerangi Gold and Scheelite Mining Company 4 2 2 2 Bannockburn Macrae's Bald Hill Flat . .. The Reefs