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Number Amount of Amount of Distance "Nature of Name of Prospecting Party. of Pro- Locality of Operations. Subsidy Subsidy driven riahn Character of Operations. Remarks. spectors. granted.* expended. or sunk. Southern Inspection District —continued. £ s. d. £ s. d. Ft. Bendigo Deep Lead Syndicate .. .. 4 Bendigo .. .. .. .. 92 14 10 .. .. Dredging.. Boring .. .. Operations not yet commenced. Elsom, J. J., and party .. .. 6 Bonanza Mine, Budle .. .. .. 35 12 0 28 8 0 71 Reef .. Driving and sinking .. Work still in progress. Ettrick Prospecting Syndicate .. .. 4 Ettrick Flat, near Roxburgh .. .. 160 0 0 54 7 4 155 Dredging.. Boring .. .. Unsatisfactory. Unexpended balance of | 160 j subsidy cancelled. Golden Point Gold and Scheelite Co. .. 6 Golden Point, Deep Dell, Macraes .. 211 10 0 140 4 0 i I Reef .. Driving rising, and Work not completed. Unexpended bal- ( (rising) » sinking ance of subsidy cancelled. Hadcroft and party .. .. .. 2 Saddle Hill .. .. .. .. 50 76 24 140 76 Reef .. Driving and sinking .. Unsatisfactory; nothing of importance located. Unexpended balance of subsidy cancelled. Livingstone, G. J. R. .. .. 2 Hyde, Rock and Pillar Survey District .. 20 1 8 19 11 4 98 Alluvial Sinking .. .. Work not completed. Unexpended baldeep lead ance of subsidy cancelled. Morrow, J. T. .. .. .. 2 Ettrick Flat .. .. .. .. 18 0 0 18 0 0 204 Alluvial Boring .. .. Nothing of importance yet located. % deep lead Nokomai Gold-mining Co., Ltd. .. .. Nokomai .. .. .. .. 187 10 0 .. .. .. .. This subsidy was not taken up. Cancelled. O'Connell, J., and party .. .. 6 Macraes .. .. .. .. 1180 .. .. Alluvial Sinking and driving .. Nothing of importance found. deep lead Shotover Reefs Development Co. .. 5 Ballarat Creek, Skippers .. .. 106 5 0 3 2 6 .. Reef .. Driving .. .. No work done during the year. Balance of subsidy cancelled. Sutherland, D., and party .. .. 3 Highlay Creek .. .. .. 48 12 0 48 40 83 Alluvial Driving .. .. Nothing of importance found. Balance of deep lead subsidy cancelled. Symes, R. T. .. .. .. 2 Symes Reef, Fruitlands .. .. 75 0 0 60 10 0 .. Reef .. Driving .. .. Crosscut 121 ft. Lode channel not intersected. Tripp, J. R., and Thompson, J. .. 2 Sawyers Gully, Skippers .. .. 3 7 6 3 7 6 203 Reef .. Driving .. .. Driving on highly payable reef. Waimumu Sluicing Co. .. .. 5 Part Section 4a, Block VIII, Waimumu 100 0 0 48 10 10 216 Alluvial .. Boring .. .. Nothing of importance located. Hundred Wesney, D. J. .. .. .. 3 Grindstone Creek, Block X, Longwood 50 0 0 23 1 8 .. Alluvial .. Sinking and boring .. Unsatisfactory. Balance of subsidy canSurvey District celled. f 411 13 4 344 19 0 1 Wetherstones Gold-mining Co., Ltd. .. 10 Wetherstones .. .. q 3 10 / Cement .. Sinking .. .. Work not yet completed. Dillon and party .. .. .. .. Naseby .. .. .. .. 150 0 0 Frye Giddens Syndicate .. .. .. Alexandra .. .. .. .. 250 0 0 129 ..3,785 18 8f | I * Includes authorizations in previous years. The total of the subsidies granted, less cancellations, during the year ended 31st March, 1935, amounted to £2,010 3s. 7d. f In addition 14s. was paid to a prospector as an adjustment on account of stores purchased by him.