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Gross Totals and Value of Gold purchased by Banks for Year ending 31st March, 1900.

SUMMARY OF WORKS CONSTRUCTED. The following statement shows the whole of the different classes of works constructed by the department, either by direct grants or by subsidies to local bodies, during the last eighteen years (the votes for this purpose having been under the control of the Hon. the Minister of Mines), for the purpose of opening up the mineral belts throughout the colony, and also for the development of the mining industry: —

Bank. Gold won. Value. Hauraki Min Ing District. Bank of New Zealand Bank oJ New South Wales National Bank of New Zealand Oz. dwt. gr. 140,040 0 0 5,082 0 0 15,965 0 0 £ s. d. 188,705 14 9 12,596 10 4 27,939 13 1 Totals... 159,087 0 0 229,241 18 2 Marlborough, Nelson, and 1 'estland Mining Di, 34,574 9 13 14,163 17 3 17,979 3 9 1,436 0 0 333 5 23 tricts. Bank of New Zealand Bank of New South Wales National Bank of New Zealand Union Bank of Australia Private buyers 135,386 9 65,819 2 67,177 11 5,669 0 1,226 2 1 5 8 0 8 Totals... 1 68,486 16 0 275,278 5 10 Otago and Souii .land Districts. 340,186 1 0 91,259 19 1 98,644 7 10 10,261 17 8 Bank of New Zealand Bank of-New South Wales National Bank of New Zealand Bank of Australasia ... 88,385 8 23,634 8 25,223 17 2,597 6 1 9 •2 0 Totals... 139,840 19 12 540,352 5 7 Grand totals 1,044,872 9 7 367,414 15 12

Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. Up to Yeabs 1882-83 and 1883-84. £ s. d. 29,252 1 11 21,437 11 2 £ s. d. 14,853 9 5 13,089 16 0 £ a. d. 14,398 11 6 8,347 15 2 Water-races Boads on goldfields Boads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage- and sludge-channels, subsidised by Mines Department 52,841 17 0 . 21,844 16 7 3,350 0 0 10,207 15 9 13,216 13 4 3,400 0 0 5,750 0 0 2,468 15 4 781 4 8 1884-85. 122,498 3 5 55,606 17 4 37,135 7 1 Water-races Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Roads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage- and sludge-channels, subsidised by Mines Department Diamond and other drills 4,846 1 9 13,667 10 1 13,566 14 1 4,594 10 0 14,596 2 9 9,630 9 6 6,293 16 6 111 19 0 4,648 11 6 12,384 15 9 12,739 17 6 2,888 1 0 850 0 0 108 0 0 3,692 0 0 4,050 0 0 3,600 0 0 45,174 15 11 1,050 0 0 1,858 0 0 1,931 4 8 1885-86. 33,648 7 0 38,284 10 5 Water-races Roads on goldfields ., Roads undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Roads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. Construction of drainage- and sludge-channels, subsidised by Mines Department Schools of Mines 3,660 4 9 27,543 18 8 14,773 2 3 1,551 19 10 6,063 2 3 12,360 14 9 13,043 15 9 4,327 0 10 6,964 4 4 27,367 19 8 12,477 9 2 490 12 8 • 11,860 18 0 1,999 5 7 6,389 5 9 10,051 14 9 2,160 9 7 3,994 16 6 1,260 9 7 6,995 9 9 900 0 0 71,602 7 10 43,049 5 3 61,785 1 4