REPORT ON THE GOLDFIELDS. (BY TELEGRAPH-OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1551, 13 June 1882, Page 2

REPORT ON THE GOLDFIELDS. (BY TELEGRAPH-OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

"Wellington, Last Night. Tiik following is the interim report of the sub-corn mittee No. 2, of goldfields, appointed to report to the Ministers that prospecting should be encouraged by grants-in-aid, the working of inferior ground, and of country requiring special cost in labour for its development, should be encouraged by the granting of extended claims on easy terms, subject to equitable conditions as to capital invested, and labor employed, so as to effectually check the locking up and shepherding of mining country. Races and other works undertaken by private enterprise, having for their object the opening up of auriferous country, should under exceptional circumstances of difficulty be subsidised by the state, and this whether sucli works are carried on by capital and labour or by labour only ; sufficient sets of diamond drills, with a supply of extra diamonds to replace any that may be broken, are required for the proper development of goldfields ; separate sets should be provided for Auckland, Westlaud, and Otago goldfields. They should be placed at the disposal of county councils for use within their respective districts. The same remarks apply to rock boring apparatus. Liberal aid for the cutting and formation of tracks on or to goldfields should be wholly undertaken or liberally aided by the Government; moi'e especially in the case of newly discovered workings. The construction of roads to timber forests should also, when required, be wholly undertaken or largely aided by the Government; land known to be auriferous should be reserved permanently from sale, and lands believed to be auriferous should, on sufficient evidence, be temporarily reserved ; but provision should, in respect of all such reserves, be made for the temporary occupation and utilisation of thesurface.— Vincent Pyke, C. A. deLatoub, T. M. Wjsstox. The report will go to Ministers tomorrow.