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(2.) Government Prospecting-drills. The following is a table giving details of operations by Government drills during 1920 :—

Type of Drill. Name of Drill Superintendent. Number of Holes drilled. To whom lent. Mineral sought ™al tor - in Feet, Cost of Character of Country pierced. Drilling, per Foot.* Cost of Diameter Transport, „i tj„i„ per Foot. of Hole - Results. ' No. 2 keystone placer C.N. diamond No. 3 Schram-Harker diamond percussive (oil-driven) Ditto W. H. Warburton IS 1 1 Westland Prospecting Syndicate Scott Bros., Reefton Homebush Brick and Coal Company. Glentunnel Ditto I ... Gold .. 416 Coal .. j 500 355 River-bed gravels Gravel, sand, clays, and shales Sandstones, clays, and shales s. d 6 lOt 3 6J 4 0 s. d. Inches. 6 Very poor, unworkable (Arahura River). 12 0 2 Coal-horizon not attained. 0 3 1J No workable coaL A. Wick" >» * • 1 1 1 506 394 266 4 1 2 11 2 1J 0 3 1J 0 3 1| 0 7 2| 2 ft. coal at 16) ft. Mount Torlesse Collieries, Avoca ,, ,» ,, Sandstones, clays, shales, conglomerates, and fieywaeke Ditto .. i I W. H. Warburton A.Wick" '.'. ,» », •. ._ 153 574 270 „ .. 475 280 162 266 86 118 Ventilation 232 Cinnabar .. 323 200 160 111 125 ,, 6 11 3 0 1 7 2 0 1 5* 1 9 1 0 4 3 4 6i 5 8 6 9£ 6 9J 6 9£ 15 si 6 9J 0 7 2f ! No workable coal. 0 7 If 0 7 2| lift. 6 in. coal at 130 ft. 0 7 IJ 2 ft, 6 in. coal at 38S ft. 0 7 2| 20 ft. coal at 236 ft. 0 7 2| 9 ft. coal at 124 ft. 0 7 2f 3 ft. 6 in. coal at 135 ft. 0 7; 2f No coal. 0 7 2| 0 7 j 4 Drilled to relieve »as; satisfactory. 2 0 6and3| Traces of cinnabar at 245 ft. 2 0 Sand 3$ 18 ft. lode-matter at 142 ft. 2 0 „ Traces of cinnabar at 84 ft. 2 0 5, +, 2J 3 ft. lode-matte; at 85 ft 2 0 4 2 ft. 6 in. lode-matter at 85 ft, ; drilling still it progress. 6 L'nprontable. A. diamond .. : C.X. diamond .. W. H. Warburton R. Pengelly State Mines, Rewanui N.Z. Quicksilver-mines, Whakapara .. Clays and gravels Mudstone and quartz Grits .. » •■ ,, * • • • ,» • ■ 3* • • ,, ■ * No. 2 keystone G. E. D. Seale .. 41 Westland Prospecting Syndicate Gold .. 850 River- be I ".ravels * Less salary and expenses of drill superintendent. t Including trans] ■ort.