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PERSONS EMPLOYED IN OR ABOUT MINES AND QUARRIES The following table shows the number of persons employed in each inspection district during 1945 and 1944 :

MINING AND QUARRY ACCIDENTS Fatal and serious accidents in the mining industry during the year 1945 were as follows i

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY During the year regional geology was carried on by only one party under Mr. in Wanganui, and under his direction Mr. Beck extended the mapping on the ironsands as far as Waitara. Small areas in Southland were mapped by parties under Mr. Willett, and at Wairaki Mr. Rout located important new carboniferous fossiliferous beds. Bentonite was examined at the Blue Slip, Kekerangu, and Clarence. Coalfields were examined at Ohai, Morley, Kaitangata, Wangaloa, Mataura, Hokonui, Mount Davy, Garvey Creek, Buller, Tatu, Kamo, Kikurangi, Kawakawa, Mangatangi, and Huntly. Clays were investigated at Wellington, Ashburton, McLeod's Bay, Tussock Creek, Taylor's Gorge, and throughout North Auckland.'

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Inspection District. Totals. Classification. Northern (North Island). West Coast (of South Island). Southern (Best of South Island). 1945. 1944. ■Gold, silver, and tungsten-ore Coal Quarries Silica ■Cinnabar Iron-ore Manganese Fuller's earth Piatomaeeous earth Bentonite Serpentine Asbestos Dolomite Clay* Phosphate Mica •Oil prospecting 506 2,110 1,091 7 9 17 1 2 2 5 5 3 621 2,421 116 " 5 6 5 4 5 177 1,061 511 4 2 9 3 1,304 5,592 1,718 11 9 22 1 2 4 5 5 6 5 16 3 5 1,390 5,595 1,531 13 18 20 1 2 2 5 17 15 4 12 14 6 Totals 3,758 3,183 1,767 8,708 8,645 * Other than for brickmaking.

• : Number of Men killed. Number of Men seriously injured. Number of Men ordinarily employed. Coal-mines Metal-mines Quarries 6 2 4 28 3 3 5,592 1,304 1,718 Totals 12 34 8,614