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RETURN No. 29. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Return of Coat, Traffic from Local Mines during the Year ending 31st March, 1903.

RETURN No. 30. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Return of the Number of Vessels discharged and loaded at the Ports of Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, and Bluff, for the Year ending 31st March, 1903.

Mine. 1901-2. Increase. Decrease. 1902-3. Campbell's Mine, Springfield Springfield Coal Company, Springfield Clondesley, Springfield ... Brockley, Glentunnel St. Helen's, Whitecliffs ... Deans, J., Glentunnel ... Harris Brothers, Mount Somers ... Albury Waimate ... ... ... ... ... Kurow Gibson's Ngapara Shag Point Allandale Coal Company Walton Park ... Saddle Hill ... Fernhill Freeman's ... ... Mosgiel ... «... Taratu Mine, Lovell's Flat Burnweil Mine, Lovell's Flat Nelson's, Benhar Kaitangata Milton Andersen's, Stirling Conical Hills ... O'Hagan, C, Pukerau ... Orchard, E. C, Pukerau Smith, J., Gore McGibbon and Sons, Gore Sleeman, C. P., Mataura Beattie, J., Mataura Brown's, Mataura Muteh and Hurst, Mataura .... Reed, W., Nightcaps ... ... Nightcaps Coal Company, Nightcaps Quested, J., Nightcaps ... ... .3. Tinker and Alley, Nightcaps Kelly, Nightcaps Beadle, Nightcaps Clark, Nightcaps McBride, A., Nightcaps Smith A., Kingston Crossing New Zealand Coal and Oil Syndicate, Orepuki Tons. 25 33o . 170 84 1,188 7,161 3,953 449 16 4 97 18 55 23,697 ii,475 14,723 2,649 8,295 3,889 5,232 13,466 150 110,632 '4,103 43 3.288 258 Tons. Tons. Tons. 438 9 58 1,261 4,124 3,578 455 98 20 '63 53 7,777 I9.I97 10,664 14,580 2,794 8,094 6,931 25 ■■ -m 161 26 108 3.037 375 73 6 82 16 34 35 7,722 4,500 8n 143 201 145 5,232 3,042 14,764 760 104,432 6,084 81 3,026 313 60 262 10 5,048 1,677 834 6,200 8,019 262 1,298 610 38 55 60 i55 10 107 6,295 2,207 1,247 530 "834 78 752 39,38i 308 3 I > I 97 4 '7 65 507 78 444 8,184 9 4 8 65 507 8 6 8 6 26 310 26 215 95 Totals 274,388 249,979 39>52.3 15. "4

Fort. 1902-3. 1901-2. Increase, Decrease. )lSCHARGED ? — Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin Bluff No. 1.564 261 149 208 62 No. 1,616 290 160 93 65 248 No. "5 No. 52 29 11 3 11 237 Totals 2,481 2,472 "5 106 jOADED : — Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin Bluff 1,727 261 134 150 7 236 1,746 292 135 114 2 245 36 5 19 31 I O Totals 60 2,515 2.534 4'