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Name of Prospecting Party. Number of Prospectors. Locality of Operations. ' Amount of Subsidy granted. Amount of Subsidy expended. Distance driven. Nature of Claim. Character of Operations. Remarks. I I Northern Inspection District. Hauraki Prospecting Association (Tierney and Regan) Waitangi Gold-mining Company £ s. d. 373 0 0 Ft. 360 Quartz Surface prospecting No work done during the year. 2 Mahakirau £1,000 (£2 subsidy for £1 subscribed) £166 13s. 4d., at 6s. 8d. per foot 7 Thames £100 in 1919, £66 13s. 4d. in 1920-21 6 0 0 .... 500 • • _. . I Driving .. Gold seen in ore, but nothing payable discovered. C. Wells and G. Blythe 2 Cabbage Bay £39, at £1 10s. a week each for three months £63, at £1 10s. a week each for three months £100 for 300 ft. driving, at 6s. 8d. £66 13s. 4d. on 200 ft. driving, at 6s. 8d. £39, at £1 10s. a week for three months £33 6s. 8d., 100 ft. driving at 6s. 8d. £51, £1 10s. a week each for four months £66 13s. 4d., 200 ft, driving at 6s. 8d. £50, 150 ft. driving at 6s. 8d. £39, £1 10s. a week for three months £39, at £1 10s. a week each for three months £39, £1 10s. a week each for three months £100, 300 ft, driving at 6s. 8d. £100. 300 ft, driving at 6s. 8d. 5s. for every £1 expended on pioneer mining £58 10s., £1 10s. each, three men for three months £83 6s. 8d., 250 ft. driving at 6s. 8d. £2,000, £1 for £1 Surface prospecting Operations suspended. ,, No work done. Driving .. Company formed. No application made for subsidy. John McCombie and mates 3 John Bremner and mate 2 Coromandel J. McClair and mate 2 Thames 13 6 8 j 40 ,, .. Operations suspended. Surface prospecting Nothing further done during the year. C. and J. Carroll 2 Kuaotunu 12 0 0 Lindsay and Strongman 2 Matawai 20 0 0 60 .. j Driving .. Driving in hard country. Work temporarily suspended. Class and Caulder .. , .. 2 Taupo ..' 38 10 0 200 150 Surface prospecting Owing to illness Caulder forced to abandon prospecting operations. Driving .. Strong colours gold seen, but nothing payable discovered. ,, 6 in. lode intersected. Ore low grade. ,, .. Good dish prospects in loose quartz. Unable to locate source. Surface prospecting Prospects encouraging. A. and H. McNeil 2 Coromandel 66 13 4 Regan and Sullivan 2 Tokatea 50 0 0 JIadell and Andrews 2 Mahakirau 39 0 0 Campbell Bros. 2 Puru 39 0 0 Wilson and Sadgrove 2 Waitaia 39 0 0 ,, Nothing payable discovered. Kuranui Gold-mining Company .. Rising Sun Gold-mining Company 4 12 Tararu .. Owharoa 100 0 0 56 13 4 300 170 Quartz Driving .. Driving on 2 ft. lode. Gold seen, but ore low-grade,- ,, .. Work suspended. Mine under protection. Surface prospecting Trenching on course of 12 ft. reef. United Gold-mines ■ Campbell Bros. 3 Puru 58 10 0 St. Hippo Gold-mining Company Thames 83 6 8 250 Driving .. Lode intersected; width unknown. Strong colours gold seen in hanging-wall portion. „ .. Work in progress, to prove reefs behind main slide. Caledonian-Kuranui-Moanataiari Ohinemuri Gold and Silver Mines Maratoto £433 6s. 8d., 1,000 ft. driving at 8s. 8d. per foot .. ,, .. Work in progress to intersect Camoola lode. I I I