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(3.) Subsidized Roads on Goldjiblds. The following schedule shows the amounts expended by subsidies and direct grants out of the Public Works Fund- vote, ''Roads on Goldfields" in the different counties, &c during the year ended 31st, March, 1916 :

(4.) Government Water-racks. The Waimea-Kumara and Mount Ida water-races, which render possible hydraulic mining in tlic Kumara district, Westland, and the Naseby district, Central Otago, have supplied ninety-one m tiers with water for sluicing during 1915, by which gold to the value of about £ 19,562 was obtained. The average earnings per mine, after deducting the sum paid for Government water, amounted to £180 for the past year, and from this must be deducted all expenditure on plant, rent, &c. The receipts and expenditure were as follows :- Itooeipfcs. Expenditure. £ £ Waimea-Kumara races .. .. .. .. .. 1.920 2.096 Mount Tda races .. .. .. .. ..1.186 1.497 Totals .. .. .. .. .. £3,106 £3,593 The capital expenditure upon these races exceeds £250,000 ; and as the expenditure in maintenance has for some years exceeded the cash received for water sold, no interest on capital or depreciation has been provided.

VIII. SCHOOLS OF MINES. The following is a summary of the result of the Government subsidized schools of mines annual examination, together with the attendance at such schools during 1915 :—

Direct Grants. Subsidies. Coromandel County Thames County Thames Borough .. Ohinemuri County.. Piako County Have lock Town Board Collingwood County Takaka County Waimea County .. Buller County Inangahua County Murchison County.. Westland County .. Grey County Runanga Borough Vincent County Taieri County Tuapeka County . . Lake County Wallace County Southland County £ s. i.l. £ s. d. 625 9 10 82 4 0 1,473 18 3 175 1.5 2 100 0 0 1,458 5 10 57 0 0 .'527 6 0 112 I 0 578 12 10 139 0 0 565 8 2 6,900 2 7 4,430 3 3 27 J 8 9 2,099 16 2 3,175 13 8 40 0 0 550 0 0. 50 0 0 1.00 0 0 427 15 I 100 0 0 137 0 0 450 (I 0 Totals £23,662 1 5 £769 19 2

Name of School. Tiames loromandel karangahake Vaihi Vestport .. luntly teefton Number of Students, 191 Presenting thorns the Annua Attending Government Exan one or |_ ,J nor0 i On any of the Six (lasses. ■', ■ , exclusively j Mining Subjects.* | 64 I 20 2 28 3 65 4 46 4 II I 17 7 28.-1 22 15. selves at al ruination. On any Subject. 22 II 13 20 12 7 25 no Number of Papers submitted at the Examination. Senior Junior Papers. Papers. 14 18 7 10 17 16 25 8 1 4 5 5 5 39 121 65 I Average Number of Marks awarded per Paper. 69-65 62-59 61 -85 58-09 52-00 17-20 41-83 j 1 56-95 Total .. * Mineralogy, metal lu: 'inding. Assaying is not :gy, mining, ventilation, geology, and mechanics embracing pumping, haulage, and included, as this subject is also taken up by bank a,nd jewellers' assistants.