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Number of Subsidized Propectors, the Amount of Subsidy granted and paid, also the Character and Result of such Prospecting Operations, from 1st April, 1915, to 31st March, 1916-contd.

Name of Prospecting Party. Number ; of Proj specters. Locality of Operations. Amount of Subsidy granted. Amount of Subs'dy expended. Distance driven. SSSS. Nature of Ctaim. Character of operations. I Remarks. West Coast Inspection District- — continued. Fiddes and Stewart 2 ! Bell Hill £ s. d. £ s. d. 52 0 0 24 0 0 Ft, Ft. I S. Fry and party Gibbons and mate R, A. Harcourt .. G. E. Humphries J. Jack and party Kulsen and Fiddes .. McBeath and party . . MeCormack and party .. j W. J. Mitchell W. S. C. Nicholl .. 2 3 6 -> 2 2 2 Cedar Creek .. .." I _. . Totara District .. ' ] Arahura Flat i Deep Creek, Marlborou gh .. ; Hauhau Terrace .. i Ka nieri Forks Back Creek, Rimu Moonlight Creek . . .. ; Alpine Fisher 125 0 0 i 26 0 0 19 0 0 30 0 0 104 0 0 ! 104 0 0 112 10 0 11 18 6 .52 0 0 52 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 82 10 0 28 5 6 50 0 0 22 0 0 75 0 0 1:59 300 377 88 100 159 300 70 100 Quartz Alluvial Quartz Alluvial Quartz Alluvial Scheelite Surface prospecting In search of quartz lodes at Bell Hill. Plenty of quartz and trenching found but no gold. Driving .. Subsidy not recommended by Inspection Branch of Mines Department. No work yet done. .. j Surface prospecting In search of lodes in vicinity of Cedar Creek. No reand trenching suits of any value. Driving .. Work in progress, some gold obtained ; final result uncertain. Surface prospecting Some lode outcrops found warrant further work. Assays up to £3 per ton in gold. Driving .. Work in progress. Surface prospecting Alluvial prospecting at Kanieri Lake district. Terraces payable for sluicing have been found. .. j Driving .. Nothing of value discovered. . . I .. Work in progress. . . „ .. A lode outcrop was found, but a drive proved nothing of value. „ .. Proposed to drive on Alpine line of reef reef south of the old workings. Nothing yet done. .. „ .. Attempting to trace the back creek run of gold south of the present workings. Driving has not yet proved anything of value. ,, .. Driving in the terrace near Kanieri Lake Road not yet commenced. .. ,, . . To further develop a claim at Arthur's Town near Hokitika. .. ; Surface prospecting In search of scheelite at Top Valley, and driving Thorpe and partyTowers and party . . 2 I Back Creek, Rimu I Butcher's Gully 66 5 0 8 15 0 112 10 0 George Willetts .. 1 : Arthur's Town .. .-. 25 0 0 ] Humphries Bros. Southern Inspection District. Oarrick Gold-mining Company .. Browne and party Waipori Prospecting Company . . Deep Dell Gold and 8. Company •Symes and party .. .. ; 2 1 o 2 2 Wairau Valley .. . . Bannockburn Lawrence .. Waipori . . .. Macrae's . . Bald Hill Flat 52 0 0 .500 0 0 154 13 5 100 0 0 65 15 0 800 0 0 669 12 0 120 0 0 58 0 0 58 0 0 166 263 777 160 777 Quartz Alluvial _ . . i . _ .. I Driving .. Work in progress. .. „ .. Anumber of small unimportant auriferor: s veins found. . ■ . „ .. No payable quartz found. Prcspectunfavourable. ,, . . Work in progress. .. ! Trenching and sur- Gold-bearing lode found, prospects favourable, face prospecting Driving .. I Work in progress. Gordon and party .. •> i Kawarau I 87 10 0 40 0 0 I i _