New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 64

Page 1785

✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

MAY 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1785

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

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

Courts.	Plaints entered.		Cases tried and disposed of during Quarter.
	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Total Amount recovered.
		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Canterbury Provincial District—continued.
Christchurch	1,341	16,728 17 10	618	11,040 2 9	10,193 17 0
Darfield	18	265 0 4	8	149 15 5	81 3 10
Fairlie	36	220 11 1	33	220 11 1	158 9 1
Geraldine	13	109 5 0	12	105 10 8	105 10 8
Kaiapoi	37	606 13 1	19	248 9 5	248 9 5
Leeston	10	238 1 2	8	178 4 5	178 4 5
Little River	1	16 0 0	5	26 18 0	24 8 0
Lyttelton	41	289 13 0	26	168 12 2	152 4 11
Methven	8	194 10 9	8	194 10 9	176 2 2
Oxford..	11	96 8 2	9	67 13 5	35 2 5
Rangiora	47	557 11 10	18	246 15 10	151 19 6
Southbridge	8	36 13 9	6	40 9 10	40 9 10
South Rakaia	5	28 5 4	..	..	..
Temuka	50	616 1 9	35	377 9 4	362 17 4
Timaru	313	2,798 13 3	110	1,081 1 5	1,010 15 5
Waimate	86	913 17 6	46	531 6 10	277 17 2
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	30	147 13 4	20	108 11 8	93 10 1
Arrowtown	6	37 3 9	6	22 7 6	22 7 6
Balclutha	60	748 13 3	37	270 0 1	190 7 11
Black’s	3	51 17 6	2	12 17 6	12 17 6
Campbelltown	17	95 17 1	7	56 17 11	55 2 11
Clinton	3	58 3 0	2	54 15 3	32 15 9
Clyde ..	4	28 6 11	4	25 4 1	25 4 1
Cromwell	12	162 15 3	9	117 15 2	87 15 2
Dunedin	917	8,853 7 5	542	4,364 1 11	4,150 15 10
Gore ..	90	1,050 7 5	60	662 6 1	638 4 0
Hampden	..	..	..	..	..
Hyde ..	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	517	4,649 15 8	262	2,691 15 2	2,434 17 3
Kaitangata	5	15 10 11	2	10 2 5	10 2 5
Kurow	32	187 8 9	27	116 0 2	81 6 11
Lawrence	6	184 5 9	2	34 17 6	4 17 6
Lumsden	12	164 3 3	16	193 16 8	185 19 3
Macrae’s	..	..	..	..	..
Mataura	31	238 5 8	24	164 11 5	157 17 11
Middlemarch	5	20 17 2	..	..	..
Milton	7	60 13 6	5	41 15 7	41 13 7
Mosgiel	6	16 7 6	5	25 13 1	25 13 1
Naseby	1	3 11 0	3	23 16 9	20 5 9
Oamaru	188	1,354 19 11	99	811 6 8	682 9 9
Orepuki	9	96 16 1	11	112 1 10	69 14 7
Otatau	76	847 19 7	40	492 12 4	492 12 4
Outram	5	88 0 9	5	88 0 9	64 10 3
Owaka	12	152 18 0	10	120 19 0	79 16 0
Palmerston South	26	197 4 5	19	113 18 8	60 10 9
Patearoa	1	5 13 0	..	..	..
Pembroke	13	161 0 0	3	27 18 3	27 18 3
Port Chalmers ..	18	75 18 4	9	30 3 6	28 8 6
Queenstown	5	44 15 4	5	44 15 4	30 6 8
Riverton	35	308 1 1	8	65 6 7	65 6 7
Roxburgh	20	79 19 3	13	57 12 4	57 12 4
St. Bathan’s	..	..	1	32 4 0	27 10 0
Stewart Island ..	4	21 12 4	2	22 16 0	22 16 0
Tapanui	6	71 7 6	4	65 8 11	61 7 6
Waikaia	6	22 1 2	4	10 13 0	10 13 0
Waikouaiti	9	132 15 0	7	118 15 7	107 17 5
Winton	70	495 11 5	41	417 2 11	302 9 7
Wyndham	26	386 9 11	12	75 10 8	73 3 7
Totals ..	15,981	18,576 6 2	9,656	116,897 6 0	100,306 14 6

TABLE III.—Showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1915, in
which MAORIS were concerned.

		£ s. d.		£ s. d.
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	1,174	14,854 15 10	954	12,034 13 11	10,396 11 1
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	33	963 11 9	27	317 3 9	139 17 3
In which Maoris only were concerned ..	70	1,339 14 10	55	1,230 16 8	769 13 4
Totals ..	1,277	17,158 2 5	1,036	13,582 14 4	11,306 1 8