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Diamond Lignite-pit, Seaward Bush. —Opencast pit. Two men at work. Orepuki Goal-mine, Orepuki. —An opencast mine being driven on the outcrop of a lease held by the New Zealand. Coal and Oil Company. Seam 12 ft.; stripping 9 ft. Lynwood Goal-pit, Te Anau. —Pit worked for supply of fuel, to the Government Tourist Department's steamer on Lake Te Anau. South/port Coal-mine, Preservation Met, —Prospecting has been carried out, and a, surface survey was being made. Accidents. There has been no fatal accident in or about the coal-mines of the Southern Inspection District during 1915, 1916, or 1917. Serious Non-fatal Accidents. Kaitangata No. 2 Mine, Kaitangata. —3rd January: Henry Hansen, 15, rope attendant; injury to foot and back; jammed between rake and runaway box; seventy-three days off work. Green's Coal-mine, Gore. —l3th February: John Smyth, 46, miner; injured ankle; struck by fall of coal on returning to face after shot-firing; 114 days off work. Bush Gully Goal-mine, Goalgate. —23rd February : Amund Petersen, 34, banksman; lacerated linger, caught between drum and rope; 141 days off. Nightcaps Coal-mine, Nightcaps. —l6th March: John Foster, 34, miner; injury to ribs while trucking a box of coal; seventy-five days off work. Mataura Lignite-mine, Mataura. —23rd April: John Bolger, engineman; fractured forearm; sleeve caught in belt off engine-shaft; forty-eight days off work. Saddle Hill No. 2 Mine, Saddle Hill. —7th May: A. Manderson, miner; contusion of back by fall of coal; fifty-one days off work. Whiterigg Coal-mine, Gore. —30th June: James Strachan ; rupture of blood-vessel in thigh; knocked by coal-truck; still off work. Nightcaps Coal-mine, Nightcaps. —l6th August: John Eunson, 49, carpenter; two fingernails torn off; was booking rope on winch-drum; eighty-three days off work. Jubilee Coal-mine, Green Island. —6th September: James Miller, 45, miner; contusion of hand and sprained finger while filling coal; sixty-four days off work. Freeman's Coal-mine, Abbotsford. —24th September: A. Diehl, miner; fractured collar-bone; struck by prop, which fell Avhile setting it; forty-three days off work. Jubilee Coal-mine, Green Island. —l6th October: Robert Campbell, miner; injured eye (subsequently removed), coal flying from pick; still off work.