New Zealand Gazette – 1912 – No. 84

Page 3279

✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

Nov. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3279

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

TABLE II.—Showing the NUMBER of CIVIL CASES HEARD, &c., in the several Magistrates’ Courts—continued.

Courts.	Plaints entered.		Cases tried.*
	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Number.	Total Amount claimed.	Total Amount recovered.
		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Canterbury District—continued.
Oxford	13	60 4 9	8	55 7 8	32 13 0
Rangiora	54	725 5 3	42	352 1 2	291 9 9
Southbridge	4	23 8 1	3	11 10 3	11 10 3
South Rakaia	3	10 7 6	6	37 2 6	37 2 6
Temuka	33	223 14 2	29	169 11 11	165 19 11
Timaru	255	2,182 19 4	171	1,732 1 2	1,670 17 11
Waimate	47	499 4 0	35	338 16 1	145 15 3
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	27	115 15 3	14	68 0 11	68 0 11
Arrowtown	4	13 6 2	4	13 6 2	13 6 2
Balclutha	43	207 18 4	24	87 10 4	87 3 4
Black’s	4	44 3 8	2	44 3 8	44 3 8
Campbelltown	33	119 17 3	27	72 17 10	71 7 10
Clinton	5	42 10 2	2	8 12 6	8 12 6
Clyde	14	74 17 10	6	30 7 2	30 7 2
Cromwell	6	34 11 1	3	27 15 0	18 15 0
Dunedin	1,131	8,122 16 8	547	5,133 6 0	4,375 5 4
Gore	123	736 8 3	69	479 15 11	470 15 11
Hampden	4	197 4 7	3	142 2 1	142 2 1
Hawkesbury	..	..	7	221 8 1	48 9 5
Invercargill	386	4,550 9 1	250	2,803 10 8	2,395 9 3
Kaitangata	8	30 7 4	6	22 13 5	17 3 2
Kurow	3	48 15 3	4	51 0 3	48 15 3
Lawrence	21	155 8 8	18	87 3 10	71 1 4
Lumsden	5	62 12 5	2	19 18 9	2 0 9
Macrae’s	1	6 3 9	..	..	..
Middlemarch	7	13 18 4	3	5 4 4	..
Milton	10	104 13 1	12	104 13 1	104 13 1
Mosgiel	4	9 5 0	2	0 18 0	0 18 0
Naseby	6	21 9 5	2	9 11 0	9 11 0
Oamaru	108	1,031 14 3	102	838 8 8	672 13 2
Orepuki	37	246 14 7	46	269 1 7	263 16 7
Otautau†	..	..	..	..	..
Outram	28	314 18 7	22	254 8 9	254 8 9
Owaka	36	254 5 8	24	174 12 1	163 16 6
Palmerston	19	101 15 3	13	53 13 2	53 13 2
Patearoa	1	2 15 11	..	..	..
Pembroke	3	14 3 9	2	7 0 11	2 12 0
Port Chalmers	9	39 11 10	5	18 8 1	14 8 1
Queenstown	8	108 7 0	7	88 13 1	52 6 7
Riverton	34	347 6 1	27	157 8 7	142 9 5
Roxburgh	8	122 0 6	3	66 2 1	66 2 1
Stewart Island	1	4 13 0	..	..	..
Tapanui	29	222 16 3	22	135 6 0	121 16 8
Waikaia	8	140 5 9	5	53 15 3	53 15 3
Winton	71	431 12 1	62	340 9 10	269 3 3
Wyndham	8	191 11 6	7	68 8 1	68 8 1
Totals	14,643	154,102 13 9	10,007	105,993 7 7	90,525 4 8

Including cases where the amount is paid into Court and accepted in discharge of the debt, also cases where judgment is by default, confessed, or consented to in Court.

† No returns received from this Court.

NOTE.—At the following Courts there was no civil business transacted during the quarter: Ahipara, Waimate North, Porangahau, Whareama, Lyell, Goldsborough, Stafford, Hyde, and St. Bathans.

TABLE III.—Showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ending 30th September, 1912, in which MAORIS were concerned.

Courts.	Plaints entered.		Cases tried.*
	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Number.	Total Amount claimed.	Total Amount recovered.
		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	903	9,237 3 7	780	8,375 10 7	7,178 19 1
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	34	423 1 3	26	217 13 11	185 12 10
In which Maoris only were concerned ..	67	1,267 10 3	45	832 4 11	363 8 5
Totals ..	1,004	10,927 15 1	851	9,425 9 5	7,728 0 4

Including (in addition to cases fought out) cases where the amount is paid into Court and accepted in discharge of the debt, also cases where judgment is by default, confessed, or consented to.

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