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why a solid and healthy enterprise should not be built up if the investing public will only insist"on the fullest guarantees that all the known conditions of success are complied with before they provide the capital for any new enterprise. I have, &c, Eobert S. Hawkins, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

A.—Number of Prospecting Licenses and Special Claims granted and expired or surrendered during 1901.

B.—List of Companies having Dredges actually at Work on their Claims on the 31st December, 1901.

139

Prospecting Prospecting Areas expired Areas granted during Year during Year ending ending 31st Deeem- 31st December, 1901. ber, 1901. Special Claims surrendered during Year ended 31st December, 1901. Special Claims granted during Year ended 31st December, 1901. No. Area. No. Area. Dr. i idging. Sluicing. Reefing. Dredging. Sluicing. ; Reefing. No Area. No , Area. No. Area. No.I Area. No. Area. No. Area. rreymouth ... ihaura teef ton Vestport jyell lurchison ... lharleston ... 60 359 88 94 7 46 6 Acres. 3,921 28,910 5,842 5,980 255 2,443 480 53 104' 24 10 6 20 2 Acres. 4,050 7,421 1,942 775 300 1,253 96 17 19 1 3 5 5 Acres. 974 780 12 244 182 383 8 9 7 5 Acres. 63 99 147 226 1 18 2 1 Acres. 100 807 107 49 27 44 6 9 13! 10 2 Acres. 1,880 3,263 338 721 699 415 179 3 16 3 1 7 7 Acres. 31 382 39 10 279 225 6 5 Acres. 406 256 1 4 20 55 66i 47,831 219 15,837 50 2,575 34 610 22 1,063 111 7,495 37 966 11 662

Name of Gold-dredging Company. •HUH £°33 <D co fl c8 j-tP-i o a fl o M to §80; ■a £.3 „H O cD Q n Location of Dredge. Date of Completion of Dredge. ID uX ■8 * n OcttrH S* CD CD GJ K«oS ■" a-"-2 oa.gg No. of Ounces of G-old won to the 31st December, 1901. Amount paid or declared in Dividends to Shareholders. Maori Gully Grey River Ruby Creek North Beach Leviathan Maori Queen Ahaura River Brickson's Reward Caledonia £ 8,900 8,500 9,860 8,025 15,000 9,750 8,538 10,000 10,000 £ 1,200 1.000 1,570 1,450 760 1,645 200 Maori Gully Grey River Norm Beaoh, Greymouth Near Greymouth Maori Creek Ahaura River Orwell Creek Above junction of Ahaura and Grey Rivers Junction of Ford's and Blackball Creeks Grey River Dec. 7, 1901 Sept. 1, 1900 Oct. 18, 1901 Aug. 8, „ Deo. 5, 1900 April 13, 1901 June 14, April 6, „ Dec. 3, „ 67 6,048 1,873 4,750 3,023 2,482 2,600 412 Oz. dwt. gr. Nil 1,274 11 14 3 9 0 283 15 12 865 10 9 292 15 13 304 13 20 340 0 0 5 12 0 £ s. a. Nil Ford's Creek 7,702 2,000 Dec, 1900 4,680 223 9 15 Great Lead Grey River Consolidated Mosquito 7,500 10,000 10,000 420 690 Dec, 1901 June 10, Dec. 10, „ 2J 430 255'17 12 Orwell Creek Paotolus Red Jack's Totara Flat Waipuna Wareatea* Welcome Rocklands Beach Reeves's Proprietary Al Buller Junction The Premier (Buller) Old Diggings Mokoia Kohikohi New River 12,000 9,375 9,000 8,940 6,000 8,250 9,900 10,854 12,200 8,500 9,375 10,600 9,000 9,000 12,000 7,000 1,222 1,025 2,000 1,900 Between Noble's and Napoleon Hill, Westland Orwell Creek Nelson Creek Red Jack's Creek Totara Flat Upper Grey River Fairdown, near Westport Inangahua Junction, Buller River Oct. 23, „ Feb. 25, „ Oct. 12, „ Nov. 15, „ June, 1900 Oct. 7, 1901 Dec. 31, „ Feb., Nov., 1900 June 6, 1901 Jan. 28, „ Nov. 30, „ Aug., Oct., 1900 Sept. 4, 1901 March, 960 4,714 1,299 13 15 154 12 12 6 0 0 934 16 4 2 19 0 3!l20 335 238 566 131 1,000 948 Boatman's Creek, near Capleston Cronadon, Reefton Buller River 4,492 4,734 3,439 4,419 170 846 179 0 0 829 3 1 907 12 6 1,169 2 11 5 10 0 79 1 3 1,046 15 23 213 14 0 199 9 18 t610 0 0 425 0 0 937 10 0 On Buller River Matakitaki River New River (seven miles from Greymouth) Nelson Creek No Town Creek 1^130 Nil Nelson Creek No Town Creek 8,500 12,000 Jan. 1, „ Deo. 31, „ 5,043 2,061 1 18 2,550 0 0 Nil 296,269 19,965 61,767 12,938 6 14 4,522 10 0 * In liquidation. + Payable in January, 1902.