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(2.) Government Prospecting-drills. The following is a table giving the result of operations by Government drills during 1918:—

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Type of Drill. Name of Drill Superintendent. Number of Holes drilled. : 'fo whom lent. | Mineral sought Total deptli for. in Feet. Character ofjCountry pierced. : Average Co F s o 0 r ; ™~ drilled, °{ including ilole " : Transport. Results. i J I . I i ! Schramm - Hacker dia- W. H. Warburton mond drill (oil-driven), Schramm - Harker dia- W. H. Warburton mond drill Schramm - P mond drill Ditto .. .. [ -. - W. H. Warburton i 17 1 s. d. Inches, i ' (1) 57"! f 9 6 2 1 : 8 ft. 3 in. oil-shale. I (2) 70 4 9 24 No oil-shale; fair gold in gravels, 4 gr. per yard. (3) 106 3 11 24 No oil-shale; fair gold in gravels, 3 gr. per yard. (4) 58 I 4 6 3 j 1 ft. oil-shale. (5) 66 4 11 - 3 I 9 ft. oil-shale; good gold in gravels, 40 gr. per vard. (6) 60 4 5 3 14 ft. 6 in. oil-shale. (7) 75 3 4, 3 i 17 ft. 9 in. oil-shale. 17 Waikaia Oil-shale DevelopmentJCom- Oil-shale <[ (8) 50 J- Fine gravels, carbonaceous sand and U 4 11 3 j No shale. pany (Limited) ■ (9) 86 clay beds 5 6 3 16 ft-. oil-shale. (10) 47 6 1 24 15 ft, oil-shale. : (11) 50 6 9 2J No shale. (12) 70 4 1 24 ! (13) 86 3 9 24 ! (14) 45 7 3 24 (15) 120 4 1 24 | 1 ft. 6 in. lignite; no oil-shale. (16) 114 3 8 2J ! 6 in. lignite; no oil-shale. (17) 78 J [ 6 10 24 j No shale. 1 Lyttelton Borough Council .. .. Water .. 630 Hard basalt and scoria .. ..134J 1„ Drilled from bottom of shaft, 280 ft.; no water found. Mines Department: Awaroa Land ~] (\ (1) 1501 [ 4 01 24 16ft. coal, lift, broken and dirty, at Company's area 118 ft, deep. Ditto .. .. .. .. (2) 145 4 4' 24 14 ft. coal, hard and clean, at-118 ft, deep. ......... : (3) 113 4 24 24 12 ft, coal, hard and clean, at 94 ft. deep. ......... i (4) 131 4 3 2J 15 ft. coal, hard and clean, at 114 ft, deep. ......... (5) 157 [ 4 4 24 ; 21 ft, coal, hard and clean, at 132 ft. deep. ......... (6) 162 4 li 2J 14 ft. 6 in. coal, hard and clean, at 141 ft, 6 in. deep. „........! (7) 313 4 74 24 17ft. coal, hard and clean, at 293ft, deep. 14<( ,, .. .. .. .. VCoal ■{ (8) 300 > Calcareous sandstone, clays, clay- < 4 7 24 18 ft. coal, hard and clean, at 277 ft. 6 in. shales to greywacke deep. „ .. .. .. .. (9) 138 10 2 24 I 19ft. 6in. coal, hard and clean, at- 109ft, 6 in. deep. Whangape Coal Company's area .. (10) 129 4 11 24 21 ft. coal, hard and clean, at 109 ft. deep. (11) 129 3 0 24 15 ft. 6 in. eoal, hard and clean, at 112 ft. 6 in. deep. Awaroa Coal Company's area .. (12) 85 5 11 2 I No coal found. (2a) 175 5 11 2 2 ft, coal at 29 ft, deep. ..J (_ (3a) 234 j : (_ 6 11 2 1 ft. coal at 61 ft. deep. 90 Westland Gold-prospecting Syndicate Alluvial gold Aggregate ! River gravel .. .. .. 5 6 6 Payable gold was proved. (Limited) (D. Ziman) 1,812 81 Metals Exploration Company (New „ .. Aggregate „ .. .. ..'56 6 Results unsatisfactory^. York) 3,381 22 Dunedin City Corporation reservoir „ Aggregate Gravel .. .. .. .. 6 Payable gold proved in holes numbered 11 area, Post-office Creek, Waipori 616 to 14 inclusive. deepest 42 13 Reservoir area, Waipori Flat .. .. Aggregate '■ „ .. .. .. .. 6 Unpayable results. 487 deepest 74 8 State Collieries, Point Elizabeth Ex- Coal .. | Aggregate Sandstone and mudstone .. .. 24 An 8 ft. coal-seam was proved over about tended area 883 300 acres, which will be developed as a State colliery. 1 '. WJ TJ - HT,.».l^,«4-~« .. j >W. H. Warburton W. H. Warburton ,, ,, . . . . Percussion drill -. Keystone placer drill.. j G. E. D. Seale .. I G. E. D. Seale .. 90 81 Keystone .. .. - H. Butland H. Butland 22 13 Percussion