New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 33

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 33

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

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

Courts.	Plaints entered. (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.)		Cases tried. (Refers only to the cases tried and disposed of during year.)
	Number.	Total Amount sued for. £ s. d.	Number.	Total Amount sued for. £ s. d.	Total Amount recovered. £ s. d.
Canterbury Provincial District—continued.
Christchurch	5,293	63,665 19 8	2,558	39,897 18 10	37,840 7 10
Darfield	58	551 7 9	57	628 0 11	599 10 2
Fairlie	66	650 5 4	47	384 0 3	253 16 8
Geraldine	102	932 14 6	90	606 16 5	549 3 0
Kaiapoi	53	452 10 11	16	243 18 2	233 18 2
Leeston	33	199 5 0	20	135 14 2	134 10 2
Little River	25	332 2 9	21	232 19 6	232 1 6
Lyttelton	95	537 17 5	65	549 9 8	411 4 11
Methven	48	596 11 10	48	596 11 10	432 3 0
Oxford	23	191 11 3	12	91 12 7	66 11 2
Rangiora	151	1,531 5 7	67	687 1 1	439 16 10
Southbridge	36	301 16 7	26	213 5 8	199 7 4
South Rakaia	7	64 3 9	4	25 4 9	24 3 9
Temuka	299	2,187 13 5	223	1,379 13 0	1,207 5 9
Timaru	1,003	9,167 13 11	665	5,232 7 3	4,723 9 1
Waimate	289	2,744 14 4	141	1,648 1 9	1,181 13 4
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	56	357 18 3	43	256 9 11	248 3 11
Arrowtown	8	267 0 6	7	60 10 6	58 10 6
Balclutha	310	2,451 14 4	236	1,494 16 7	1,390 1 5
Black’s	15	127 12 1	12	127 12 1	90 19 4
Campbelltown	75	524 10 8	52	355 15 1	330 8 9
Clinton	2	10 18 0	2	10 18 0	10 18 0
Clyde	46	140 4 6	34	251 10 1	128 10 2
Cromwell	38	407 2 3	18	211 4 9	100 8 9
Dunedin	4,248	35,525 1 3	2,231	18,907 7 0	17,725 17 4
Gore	465	4,338 5 7	302	2,760 7 11	2,267 1 6
Hampden	4	6 4 6	4	6 4 6	3 16 6
Hyde	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	2,095	24,269 15 8	1,134	15,549 4 4	14,225 5 10
Kaitangata	35	248 5 8	35	273 17 5	224 4 6
Kurow	42	293 12 3	23	201 5 5	155 9 2
Lawrence	87	732 15 5	56	452 16 10	398 14 1
Lumsden	44	465 7 3	43	408 16 1	375 1 9
Macrae’s	5	329 13 0	5	330 3 0	236 18 11
Mataura	73	947 8 10	78	947 8 10	704 11 10
Middlemarch	13	34 3 5	11	25 6 9	20 0 5
Milton	126	1,137 19 6	92	633 2 4	525 0 1
Mosgiel	63	432 0 5	53	380 1 6	318 15 9
Naseby	37	282 9 8	18	143 2 1	100 4 5
Oamaru	705	5,366 0 7	341	3,267 15 10	2,744 5 1
Orepuki	163	1,351 18 6	104	990 8 2	882 16 2
Otautau	374	2,550 3 2	314	1,452 3 11	1,447 3 11
Outram	15	170 16 0	7	65 12 10	65 12 10
Owaka	110	1,419 3 5	81	1,142 2 2	1,026 18 9
Palmerston	36	557 16 10	31	377 8 1	278 4 5
Patearoa	..	..	..	..	..
Pembroke	15	238 15 9	10	224 13 7	145 7 9
Port Chalmers	60	572 17 1	37	325 13 7	307 17 6
Queenstown	32	295 3 5	28	260 14 0	233 11 1
Riverton	100	934 18 11	76	778 15 7	738 5 8
Roxburgh	46	477 14 0	41	233 13 10	226 18 10
St. Bathan’s	6	55 17 2	5	35 7 2	35 7 2
Stewart Island	15	67 2 0	9	29 19 6	9 13 3
Tapanui	37	341 16 6	34	396 1 6	327 19 11
Waikai	37	211 9 4	31	151 1 11	104 1 5
Waikouaiti	15	100 4 11	18	150 3 6	114 17 10
Winton	202	2,277 5 8	217	1,644 6 6	1,179 6 2
Wyndham	135	1,703 11 3	73	1,153 19 9	896 6 7
Totals ..	62,465	706,907 6 9	39,225	455,153 2 1	398,760 11 9

TABLE III.—Showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Year 1914 in which MAORIS were concerned.


In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	5,399	£ s. d. 56,217 6 7	4,237	£ s. d. 43,641 18 8	£ s. d. 39,675 0 11
In which Maoris were plaintiff and Europeans defendants	150	3,453 15 10	90	1,934 6 9	1,090 1 10
In which Maoris only were concerned	209	3,617 4 5	171	3,127 15 3	2,029 9 4
Totals ..	5,758	63,288 6 10	4,498	48,704 0 8	42,794 12 1