✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics
Statistics, 1913.—Magistrates’ Courts.
THE following tables showing the number of persons brought before the several Magistrates’ Courts in New Zealand during the year ended the 31st December, 1913, the offences charged, and the Civil cases heard, are published for general information.
Registrar-General’s Office, Wellington, 10th February, 1914.
MALCOLM FRASER, Government Statistician.
MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.
TABLE I.—Showing NUMBER of PERSONS brought before the several MAGISTRATES’ COURTS in New Zealand during the Year ended 31st December, 1913, and summarily dealt with, &c.
| Courts. | Arrested or summoned. Total Offences, including Multiple Charges, each Offence being reckoned as a Distinct Person. | Discharged for Want of Prosecution or Want of Evidence. | Dismissed on the Merits. | Committed for Sentence. | Committed for Trial. | Summary Convictions. | Classification of Summary Convictions, according to Offences. | Excluding Multiple Charges included in Previous Columns. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Against the Person only. | ||||||||
| Sexual Offences. | ||||||||
| Assaults and other Offences. | ||||||||
| Burglary, Housebreaking, and Stealing; Robbery and Stealing from the Person. | ||||||||
| Cattle and Sheep Stealing, Theft, and other Offences against Property only. | ||||||||
| Forgery and Offences against the Currency. | ||||||||
| Against Good Order. | ||||||||
| Drunk, including Habitual Drunkards. | ||||||||
| Prohibition Orders. | ||||||||
| Other Offences. | ||||||||
| Revenue Acts. | ||||||||
| Selling Liquor without a License. | ||||||||
| Other Breaches. | ||||||||
| Offences relating to carrying out Laws and against Public Welfare. | ||||||||
| Distinct Arrests or Summonses, excluding Multiple Charges included in Previous Columns. | ||||||||
| Distinct Summary Convictions, excluding Multiple Charges included in Previous Columns. | ||||||||
| M. & F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | |
| Auckland Provincial District— | ||||||||
| Ahipara— | ||||||||
| Arrest | ||||||||
| Summons | ||||||||
| Auckland— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 4,104 | 3,747 | 357 | 144 | 10 | 84 | 6 | 49 |
| Summons | 3,706 | 3,436 | 270 | 515 | 19 | 242 | 31 | 4 |
| Cambridge— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 81 | 81 | 21 | 9 | ||||
| Summons | 70 | 70 | 9 | 3 | ||||
| Coromandel— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Summons | 36 | 33 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 6 | ||
| Dargaville— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 47 | 47 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Summons | 183 | 182 | 1 | 4 | 14 | |||
| Gisborne — | ||||||||
| Arrest | 589 | 565 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Summons | 430 | 409 | 21 | 54 | 8 | 14 | ||
| Hamilton— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 265 | 255 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Summons | 380 | 370 | 10 | 50 | 11 | |||
| Helensville— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 38 | 38 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| Summons | 21 | 21 | 5 | |||||
| Hikurangi— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Summons | 47 | 43 | 4 | 5 | 5 | |||
| Hohoura— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 5 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Summons | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Huntly— | ||||||||
| Arrest | 30 | 30 | 1 | |||||
| Summons | 85 | 84 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1914, No 11
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NZ Gazette 1914, No 11
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⚖️ Magistrates' Courts Statistics for 1913
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement10 February 1914
Statistics, Magistrates' Courts, Offences, Convictions, New Zealand
- MALCOLM FRASER, Government Statistician