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Boat Harbour District. The claims which were taken up in this part have not been worked during the year. General Remarks. The Royal Oak, Hauraki Associated Reefs, Kapanga, and the Hauraki Mine have been the chief gold-producers, and have been vigorously worked. At Kuaotunu the Try Fluke (now Mariposa), Great Mercury, and Kapai-Vermont Mines did not yield rich returns, and deeper working must be resorted to in this district. The Kauri Gold Estates Company have carried on extensive works, with fair prospects of success. Thames Disteict. The mining operations in this district have been of a developmental character, and large amounts have been expended on the erection of machinery, especially for mining at deep levels.

Abstract of Licenses for Special Claims and Licensed Holdings issued from the Warden's Office at Thames, in the Hauraki Mining District, and registered on or before the 31st March, 1898, in the Books of the Mining Registrar at Thames.

Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. 11/11/95 13/12/90 1/3/96 14/12/96 14/12/96 1/2/97 1/4/96 17/2/96 17/2/96 5/7/97 17/2/96 15/6/96 .3/11/95 14/4/96 11/12/95 16/2/96 .8/2/98 i/5/97 .1/9/97 14/7/97 1/2/97 13/12/96 14/8/97 .0/5/97 .5/2/97 .9/9/96 .8/2/97 5/12/95 19/4/97 19/4/97 14/4/90 .8/2/97 1/4/97 12/9/96 .8/5/96 12/11/97 1/3/96 15/4/96 19/5/96 19/5/96 19/5/96 13/3/97 14/7/97 1/8/88 A. B. P. 21 3 32 99 0 0 58 2 10 61 3 5 100 0 0 100 0 0 71 2 18 68 1 0 68 1 0 27 0 0 82 0 3 98 2 7 96 2 0 99 0 24 100 0 0 77 2 0 31 2 32 90 3 25 99 2 22 92 2 0 64 2 0 100 0 0 26 0 12 90 0 3 54 2 0 100 0 0 16 1 23 79 3 0 100 0 0 99 2 0 98 3 2 20 1 10 10 1 0 76 0 0 51 1 20 49 0 0 100 0 0 98 2 0 100 0 0 69 3 24 70 3 26 100 0 0 100 0 0 15 2 17 Thames Waiomo Tairua Waiomo Whangamata Gum Town.. Thames Punga Flat.. Tararu Puriri Thames Puriri Waiomo Thames Tairua Puriri Waiomo Whangamata Waiomo Tararu Tapu Tararu IV, V. II. IX. II. VIII., XII. IV. I. V. XIII. V. XIII. I. V. XIII. XIV. XIV., XV. XI. I. XI. II. Thames .. Tairua Thames .. Tairua Whitianga Thames .. u • • Tairua Thames .. Tairua Thames .. Hastings .. Tairua Hastings .. Thames .. Hastings .. Thames .. Adelaide Adeline Ajax Ake Ake Alameda Albion Alburnia East Alburnia Extended.. Alexander Alpine Amazon .. .. Anchor Apakura Argosy Argosy Extended .. Argentine Auckland Brokers .. Aurarius Averna Athens Aztec Ballade Balmoral Band Bankers Beehive Bell Rock Belterbet .. Beruice Big Reef Black Bess Black Douglas Bonanza No. 1 Boss Bourbon Broken Hills Broken Hills Ext. .. Broken Hills No. 2.. Broken Hills No. 3.. Broken Hills No. 4.. Broken Hill Caledonian No. 2 .. Cambria .. .. The Adelaide Gold-mining Go. (N.L.). Simon Fraser. Finlay McLiver. Ake Ake Gold-mining Go. (N.L.). Henry James Ross. Walter Calloway. The Alburnia East Gold-mining Co. The Seven Reefs Gold-mining Co. John William Ryan. Alexander McLeod Cowie. Francis Angus White. Golden Centre Gold-mining Co. Adolph Kohu. W. J. Nevill. Argosy Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Charles McLean. Henry Culpan. Robert Worth. A. H. Wylde and R. Leary. Charles White Cave. John Morrison. Hugh Owen. Ernest Clifton Beale. John Ward. Simon Fraser. John Hague Smith. The Bell Rock Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). George Samuel Graham. Joseph William Day. Arthur Wright. Frederick Shaw. Andrew Dewar Douglas. George Bigg Withers, Ernest Mansfield. James Welman. Broken Hills Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Charles Rhodes and others. Broken Hills No. 2 Gold-mining Co. Broken Hills Gold mining Co. (Ltd.). Thames Waiomo Tairua Waiomo Whangamata Waiomo Ohui Waiomo Tairua V. XIV. XIII. XV. II. XIV. IV. XV. II., VI. VI. Hastings .. Tairua Hastings .. Ohinemuri Hastings .. Tairua Hastings .. Tairua Tapu Hape Creek.. Thames XIV. V. IV. Hastings .. Thames .. Broken Hill Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). John Childerhouse. Anglo - Continental Gold Syndicati (Limited). James George Wilson. Thomas Morrin and Robert Kelly. Percy Adolphus Vaile. \ David Cole Gash. The Cardigan Gold-mining Go. (Ltd.). Henry Becker. John C. Webster. Henry William Moore. Caspian Gold-mining Go. (N.L.). Frederick Earl. Malcom Fleming. William Duncan Pearce. William Nicol Macbeth, Gity of Auckland Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). City of London Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Charles Short. Club Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). The Clunes Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). 13/3/97 19/4/97 i/8/97 J/7/97 16/11/97 1/5/95 3/2/96 r/6/97 ' 13/7/96 .9/12/95 31/3/98 5/3/96 3/2/96 .6/3/98 .4/9/95 14/11/96 L5/12/97 12/9/96 .1/4/95 100 0 0 99 3 30 92 0 0 8 3 16 3 2 0 64 2 0 8 10 78 0 0| 100 0 0 20 1 16 100 0 0 69 0 0 11 2 20 100 0 0 99 2 23 67 0 27 43 1 39 50 0 0 16 0 0 Tararu Te Mata Tairua Thames Ohui ! '. Tairua Whangamata Thames Tapu Kirikiii Tararu I., II. VII. IX. 1 * IV. Hastings .. Tairua Thames 1 Tairua j Thames .. Tairua Thames .. Ohinemuri Thames .. Hastings .. Tairua Thames .. Cameron Canadian .. Captain Argall Captain Argall Extended Cardigan Extended.. Cardigan Carnation Carnival Cascade Caspian Chamberlain Chester Chicago XIII. III. IV. XI. IX. II. Thames Punga Flat.. Tapu Thames I. V. IV. XI. IV. City of Auckland City of London Clarence Berry . Club Clunes Hastings .. Thames ..