✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

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.
Wellington Provincial District.
Bull’s 37 483 7 2 21 176 15 2 118 16 2
Carterton 85 881 2 0 60 683 17 1 639 16 8
Ekatahuna 98 990 17 11 75 772 18 11 595 1 7
Featherston 209 1,247 2 10 189 909 2 8 859 2 6
Feilding 619 6,439 6 9 474 4,073 3 7 3,703 17 9
Foxton 134 694 19 4 126 716 10 9 365 14 2
Greytown 137 1,438 2 2 102 847 8 7 775 10 3
Hunter ville.. 84 815 6 8 102 815 6 8 494 14 1
Kimbolton 20 204 4 2 24 223 13 0 68 2 3
Levin 336 2,684 18 7 264 2,127 4 1 1,962 6 1
Lower Hutt 314 2,018 3 5 234 1,414 17 5 1,369 10 8
Mangaweka 106 969 13 8 90 815 1 4 581 8 7
Martinborough 133 1,259 13 1 85 720 17 2 710 0 3
Marton 361 3,141 8 11 246 1,864 12 9 1,537 5 4
Masterton 540 5,342 3 8 374 4,252 14 2 2,819 17 10
Ohakune 423 4,092 19 6 304 2,671 13 0 2,145 1 2
Otaki 116 1,350 4 9 81 1,394 15 8 932 6 6
Pahiatua 172 2,279 13 6 120 1,747 11 1 1,324 9 11
Palmerston North 1,217 14,093 0 11 735 8,250 0 9 7,311 17 0
Petone 118 770 1 11 68 571 4 1 561 9 1
Pongaroa 39 189 16 5 12 45 15 3 45 15 3
Raetihi 149 1,206 18 1 106 939 16 0 728 16 8
Taihape 396 3,868 8 0 265 2,348 14 4 1,976 17 8
Upper Hutt 64 553 19 6 73 479 17 4 412 7 8
Wanganui 1,968 19,432 7 11 1,081 10,958 4 9 8,722 19 8
Waverley 83 792 19 5 61 545 4 5 490 8 11
Wellington 5,696 82,846 11 4 3,139 49,325 14 5 44,137 6 11
Whareama 1 22 1 0 1 22 1 0 ..

Marlborough Provincial District.

Blenheim 557 5,040 15 8 483 3,104 13 5 2,892 18 7
Havelock 61 386 6 2 42 330 2 4 173 9 6
Kaikoura 159 1,481 19 6 120 1,174 13 1 227 15 2
Picton 70 590 16 4 49 361 8 2 335 15 11

Nelson Provincial District.

Ahaura 20 227 8 2 11 215 10 5 67 17 11
Brightwater 53 457 16 1 31 330 18 7 321 8 7
Brunnerton 54 278 4 4 34 182 19 5 174 13 6
Charleston 5 60 3 6 2 48 2 4 48 2 4
Cheviot 62 453 3 6 39 183 8 1 126 0 3
Collingwood 14 229 19 3 8 92 4 3 23 13 1
Culverden 41 457 5 11 37 458 11 1 392 15 1
Denniston 51 281 6 6 49 263 0 1 250 9 7
Granity 30 366 15 0 19 285 11 11 277 8 5
Karamea 38 373 5 5 28 224 13 3 204 11 8
Lyell 4 16 3 7 4 16 3 7 0 16 1
Motueka 109 651 16 3 76 384 17 5 382 11 7
Murchison 46 859 1 8 23 764 3 2 520 6 9
Nelson 667 6,621 0 9 346 3,454 2 3 3,105 16 9
Reefton 165 1,254 10 4 122 874 13 8 782 19 4
Seddonville.. 28 147 19 11 16 110 13 0 27 8 5
Takaka 66 591 7 10 78 669 1 3 460 14 0
Westport 855 6,591 16 3 554 4,244 5 3 3,899 8 2

Westland Provincial District.

Goldsborough .. .. .. .. ..
Greymouth.. 664 4,807 1 5 430 3,079 7 8 2,901 10 0
Hokitika 240 1,451 3 9 206 1,268 19 2 847 0 1
Kumara 42 357 19 3 20 242 16 9 216 11 9
Okarito 6 52 2 7 4 45 13 7 45 13 7
Ross 14 123 7 4 8 87 11 1 36 15 7
Stratford 1 34 0 3 1 34 0 3 34 0 3

Canterbury Provincial District.

Akaroa 51 470 17 7 41 421 13 11 356 6 5
Amberley 46 544 19 2 33 476 16 9 381 8 9
Ashburton 366 3,435 3 9 230 1,873 4 1 1,693 18 1
Chatham Islands 28 429 10 3 18 315 3 8 171 18 8
Christchurch 5,755 53,611 1 0 3,110 36,056 1 0 33,718 12 1
Darfield 54 362 15 2 40 292 12 4 259 6 6
Fairlie 76 237 2 3 68 218 6 5 189 7 5
Geraldine 103 505 2 7 87 278 6 3 276 1 10
Kaiapoi 103 903 3 11 62 585 16 1 511 15 11
Leeston 75 446 1 4 43 277 16 11 246 3 11
Little River 31 282 14 6 25 176 16 5 126 15 5
Lyttelton 52 366 15 7 35 264 1 11 245 10 2
Methven 52 970 8 9 52 970 8 9 761 7 6

*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.



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⚖️ Statistics of Magistrates' Courts Cases for 1912 (continued from previous page)

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
10 January 1913
Statistics, Magistrates' Courts, Civil Cases, 1912, Wellington Provincial District, Marlborough Provincial District, Nelson Provincial District, Westland Provincial District, Canterbury Provincial District