New Zealand Gazette – 1914 – No. 11

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.—CIVIL CASES—continued.

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.
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	141	765 12 4	111	642 9 6	590 4 10
Arrowtown	14	149 7 0	15	80 11 1	80 11 1
Balclutha	278	2,720 8 2	166	1,509 0 11	1,281 13 1
Black’s	12	158 17 6	9	140 3 9	88 11 9
Campbelltown	182	989 2 9	107	481 2 4	419 10 4
Clinton	32	529 5 0	23	389 8 4	220 18 8
Clyde	20	282 1 10	18	258 9 0	21 3 11
Cromwell	32	426 14 5	23	324 2 7	252 6 2
Dunedin	4,814	37,011 13 1	2,418	21,872 17 11	20,287 0 5
Gore	573	6,127 1 3	337	3,347 19 9	2,742 9 1
Hampden	12	27 17 6	12	22 0 6	22 0 6
Hyde	1	16 0 0	..	..	..
Invercargill	2,007	21,979 5 5	1,059	12,525 4 6	11,461 7 2
Kaitangata	40	208 14 6	37	163 19 1	135 17 8
Kurow	10	99 5 11	12	162 4 11	126 3 4
Lawrence	128	736 19 6	51	334 15 11	243 5 10
Lumsden	51	595 18 0	41	463 8 10	217 17 2
Macrae’s	3	16 14 3	2	3 18 9	3 18 9
Middlemarch	16	55 8 2	19	72 5 7	36 5 0
Milton	92	893 15 7	83	736 15 8	627 18 5
Mosgiel	69	291 13 8	45	166 17 0	120 19 2
Naseby	66	685 18 4	47	401 18 11	385 1 4
Oamaru	475	4,387 1 0	260	2,279 3 0	1,847 3 3
Orepuki	173	1,011 15 2	115	656 8 7	600 7 11
Otatau	371	2,364 19 2	340	1,589 16 4	1,148 15 1
Outram	6	197 12 4	7	184 7 4	184 7 4
Owaka	78	648 17 8	52	454 7 9	415 9 1
Palmerston	47	499 10 7	50	499 10 7	300 17 1
Patearoa	2	6 9 6	3	7 8 6	6 18 0
Pembroke	8	98 3 10	3	15 4 6	9 9 6
Port Chalmers	53	281 8 0	27	108 7 4	94 17 4
Queenstown	19	433 16 4	17	326 14 8	263 16 7
Riverton	138	1,119 8 5	106	903 7 8	815 10 0
Roxburgh	57	644 1 3	37	395 2 3	232 15 8
St. Bathan’s	3	89 2 8	5	174 11 7	28 16 3
Stewart Island	5	15 18 7	3	15 18 7	1 14 8
Tapanui	69	610 6 1	47	628 12 8	351 7 6
Waikaia	21	218 2 8	17	174 16 6	124 18 6
Waikouaiti	16	162 13 10	12	135 13 6	127 9 0
Winton	263	1,925 15 5	275	1,678 5 9	969 3 11
Wyndham	143	1,484 14 7	101	961 5 5	888 11 4
Totals	61,759	670,924 10 7	39,086	427,484 1 7	366,980 19 9

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 ended 31st December, 1913, 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	4,591	46,015 14 1	3,771	38,926 4 7	34,280 14 2
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	130	2,592 6 0	85	2,103 12 1	1,478 12 10
In which Maoris only were concerned	223	3,946 13 11	175	2,903 10 6	2,228 5 6
Totals	4,944	52,554 14 0	4,031	43,933 7 2	37,987 12 6

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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