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No 11. Number of Persons ordinarily employed during the Years ended 31st December, 1906 and 1907.

District. Alluvial Miners. Quartz-miners. Totals. Grand Totals. European. Chinese. European! Chinese. European.| Chinese. 1906. 1907. GOLD-MINES. AtTCKXAND^ - Coromandel Thames Pae ro i.. Te Aroha Tauranga Waihi.. .. Grtat. Barrier Island 102 454 601 22 6 J, 680 23 102 454 601 22 6 1,680 23 130 454 601 20 1 1,500 102 454 601 22 6 1,680 23 2.8S8 2,888 2,706 2,888 Marlborough— Blenheim 10 14 24 15 Nelson— Wuiigareka and Sherry .. Takaka Collingwood Inangaltna Ahauia Charleston Westport, including Addison's,\ Northern Terraces, Waimangaroa, North Beach, Mokihinui, Y Karamea, and Lower Buller Valley J Lvell .. Muiohison Owen .. 27 40 150 300 87 80 50 30 700 60 13 27 70 850 360 87 113 80 50 10 21 60 980 400 89 160 27 70 930 410 87 113 100 46 53 99 57 99 78 78 78 78 828 130 856 1,684 130> 1,875 1,814 Westland— Ross Stafford and Goldsborough Hokitika and Kanieri Kumara .. Greymouth Arnold .. •• j Okarito 50 200 231 51 2 30 23 22 6 "l7 56 200 248 51 2 80 28 22 49 • 230 255 . 73 58 230 276 73 748 170 748 170 930 918 12 12 32 12 1,292 252 23 1,315 252 1,569 1,567 Otago— Hindon Tuapeka Clyde. Roxburgh. Black's, and __A!exaj)dr& Cromwell Tapanui Waikaia Wvndham Waiau .. ) Orepuki and Preservation r Roundhill .. .. J Wakatipu Goldfields—Arrow, Macetown, Oardrona, Kawarau, Bracken's, and Motatapu Queenstown Naseby .. .. ) St. Bathan's Hyde Macrae's .. ) Maerewhenua and Kurow 'Gore 16 240 500 270 8 300 7 273 67 1 50 30 18 28 30 5 21 10 12 12 3 23 5 37 250 512 282 8 300 7 276 90 1 50 30 18 "28 30 10 42 352 568 306 8 300 10 * 316 94 38 300 542 300 8 328 7 306 100 100 7 39 1 139 8 170 147 287 61 67 6 354 67 322 421 48 300 48 300 48 343 48 300 2,416 230 187 12 2,603 242 2,874 2,845