New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 93

Page 2841

✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

AUG. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2841

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

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

Courts	Plaints entered - Number	Plaints entered - Total Amount sued for (£ s. d.)	Cases tried and disposed of during Quarter* - Number	Cases tried and disposed of during Quarter* - Total Amount sued for (£ s. d.)	Cases tried and disposed of during Quarter* - Total Amount recovered (£ s. d.)
Canterbury Provincial District—continued.
Fairlie	19	181 18 8	16	174 10 0	99 13 0
Geraldine	25	110 7 2	24	73 13 5	57 16 0
Kaiapoi	5	36 16 0	7	250 15 2	204 17 2
Leeston	8	52 14 5	8	93 1 3	32 10 11
Little River	11	259 12 6	8	194 1 1	194 1 1
Lyttelton	11	52 1 0	10	93 6 11	91 0 2
Methven	5	78 0 0	8	78 0 0	11 10 6
Oxford	16	238 13 4	10	114 15 5	114 15 5
Rangiora	25	192 12 8	17	130 15 3	95 10 3
Southbridge	11	97 19 0	11	97 19 0	40 1 10
South Rakaia	2	7 16 3	..	..	..
Temuka	60	282 19 9	49	324 0 8	284 12 1
Timaru	182	2,520 3 1	183	1,486 9 11	1,433 18 7
Waimate	73	752 17 11	37	399 9 4	297 15 0

Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	7	42 17 5	4	37 6 0	37 6 0
Arrowtown	9	151 19 6	8	126 1 2	126 1 2
Balclutha	45	467 8 3	33	316 15 9	290 9 9
Black's	5	55 8 8	4	53 15 6	53 15 6
Campbelltown	20	61 1 10	6	28 15 8	28 15 8
Clinton	3	19 0 0	2	14 0 0	14 0 0
Clyde	8	81 11 3	5	16 16 10	4 16 7
Cromwell	17	114 16 7	7	43 7 1	43 7 1
Dunedin	958	8,484 16 10	509	4,649 17 7	4,376 18 4
Gore	94	1,118 18 2	64	612 15 4	465 4 8
Hampden	1	1 7 6	1	1 7 6	1 7 6
Hyde	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	660	6,903 12 9	308	2,785 5 9	2,417 0 1
Kaitangata	6	17 2 4	7	17 2 4	16 17 4
Kurow	11	108 9 5	13	90 5 3	39 7 3
Lawrence	35	212 13 0	8	31 13 8	31 13 8
Lumsden	9	102 18 4	10	129 19 1	80 15 10
Macrae's	..	..	..	..	..
Mataura	14	137 0 2	14	137 0 2	76 4 0
Middlemarch	13	70 4 6	5	18 17 6	17 17 6
Milton	10	156 17 3	8	134 8 11	130 17 3
Mosgiel	7	165 4 9	5	149 15 1	149 15 1
Naseby	6	52 1 2	1	5 2 8	4 2 8
Oamaru	97	831 5 9	99	782 16 8	694 17 5
Orepuki	25	196 5 4	18	170 1 7	150 0 0
Otautau	72	513 2 9	48	241 14 3	241 14 3
Outram	2	106 15 0	1	19 11 7	..
Owaka	7	75 9 4	7	75 9 4	75 9 4
Palmerston South	4	82 6 8	11	149 16 5	104 2 5
Patearoa	2	43 11 2	..	..	..
Pembroke	1	29 0 0	2	40 13 7	13 13 7
Port Chalmers	7	81 15 0	9	70 16 9	53 13 9
Queenstown	11	46 19 11	8	65 1 9	56 16 0
Riverton	23	136 2 5	27	214 18 4	167 5 11
Roxburgh	21	520 5 9	13	422 8 6	422 8 6
St. Bathan's	..	..	..	..	..
Stewart Island	3	15 9 4	2	12 19 3	12 19 3
Tapanui	12	97 8 7	8	77 4 1	67 4 1
Waikaia	1	7 10 0	1	7 10 0	7 10 0
Waikouaiti	11	12 18 11	10	12 12 1	12 12 1
Winton	47	289 0 9	64	270 0 4	240 18 2
Wyndham	17	218 17 7	13	54 1 5	49 14 11

Totals	15,154	181,883 15 6	9,487	112,334 17 10	97,780 1 3

* (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 Quarter ended 30th June, 1915, in which MAORIS were concerned.

	Plaints entered - Number	Plaints entered - Total Amount sued for (£ s. d.)	Cases tried and disposed of during Quarter - Number	Cases tried and disposed of during Quarter - Total Amount sued for (£ s. d.)	Cases tried and disposed of during Quarter - Total Amount recovered (£ s. d.)
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	1,354	16,057 6 4	1,107	12,487 13 0	11,419 8 8
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	30	410 17 9	24	429 3 4	219 6 8
In which Maoris only were concerned	55	1,517 13 3	51	1,101 13 10	609 12 7
Totals	1,439	17,985 17 4	1,182	14,018 10 2	12,248 7 11