New Zealand Gazette – 1913 – No. 11

Page 565

✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

Feb. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 565

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	74	510 7 0	55	338 12 5	279 3 1
Rangiora	207	2,395 1 10	120	1,302 3 0	1,039 18 5
Southbridge	30	132 9 1	25	112 11 0	112 11 0
South Rakaia	25	141 8 2	28	143 10 7	121 18 9
Temuka	164	1,070 5 9	151	877 9 5	774 13 5
Timaru	985	8,417 12 9	747	6,179 2 2	4,925 17 7
Waimate	258	2,013 4 3	143	1,417 18 1	928 18 1
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	73	565 10 6	44	391 0 7	389 0 7
Arrowtown	3	20 0 0	2	15 7 0	15 7 0
Balclutha	129	1,215 17 0	78	787 3 2	403 8 6
Black’s	19	111 19 1	14	77 3 5	75 0 1
Campbelltown	150	570 7 3	92	417 7 4	386 14 1
Clinton	30	175 4 2	19	104 3 2	80 19 8
Clyde	30	170 10 8	13	86 0 3	84 0 3
Cromwell	40	345 16 6	34	302 0 6	220 2 1
Dunedin	3,780	33,335 9 8	1,916	17,606 13 0	16,048 2 8
Gore	400	3,219 10 10	251	2,250 2 3	2,011 11 9
Hampden	11	298 14 10	9	269 9 4	245 19 4
Hawkesbury	15	304 2 9	15	296 17 1	116 16 11
Hyde	1	5 12 2	..	..	..
Invercargill	1,719	17,581 9 4	997	10,804 16 2	9,993 12 10
Kaitangata	23	144 1 4	18	87 8 7	67 19 4
Kurow	59	689 0 6	38	479 0 11	476 15 11
Lawrence	79	378 0 4	50	224 16 5	198 6 11
Lumsden	40	392 2 8	30	314 8 4	272 0 0
Macrae’s	4	24 5 7	2	13 5 9	13 5 9
Middlemarch	11	29 15 2	8	22 9 4	10 13 11
Milton	63	473 13 5	64	484 17 11	483 7 11
Mosgiel	64	486 19 2	41	259 2 0	259 2 0
Naseby	25	201 16 5	11	98 6 6	87 16 11
Oamaru	503	4,186 3 3	313	2,506 1 5	2,126 1 0
Orepuki	200	1,125 19 8	149	847 2 9	835 14 9
Otatau	227	1,507 18 6	108	904 6 3	841 0 3
Outram	55	754 6 4	41	566 3 3	556 3 3
Owaka	70	529 19 0	57	387 12 9	358 7 8
Palmerston	60	526 10 9	43	279 0 6	276 11 10
Patearoa	5	37 18 11	2	65 11 0	49 1 0
Pembroke	9	144 5 1	5	30 5 1	25 16 2
Port Chalmers	47	365 12 6	37	403 19 8	258 2 8
Queenstown	46	582 13 11	36	535 12 8	437 1 11
Riverton	121	904 12 0	89	760 15 0	642 16 10
Roxburgh	23	277 10 7	15	201 7 11	196 2 11
St. Bathan’s	3	29 10 10	2	12 6 2	12 6 2
Stewart Island	3	12 4 6	1	7 11 6	..
Tapanui	59	445 18 6	49	340 7 0	319 0 2
Waikaia	19	253 2 6	13	155 18 6	134 2 0
Winton	191	1,354 4 1	213	1,483 10 4	1,137 4 1
Wyndham	76	949 19 11	36	427 19 6	390 19 0
Totals	57,079	592,942 13 6	36,815	420,073 0 6	331,020 3 4

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.

TABLE III.—Showing Summary of Civil Cases heard during the Year ending 31st December, 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	4,143	39,242 13 1	3,122	29,827 8 4	26,585 13 7
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	117	1,909 8 8	82	1,054 5 2	700 17 3
In which Maoris only were concerned	197	3,329 6 4	156	2,288 11 6	1,152 19 10
Totals	4,457	44,481 8 1	3,360	33,170 5 0	28,439 10 8

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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