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New Zealand Gazette – 1916 – No. 69

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

JUNE 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2025

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. (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.)
	Number.	Total Amount sued for. £ s. d.	Number.	Total Amount sued for. £ s. d.	Total Amount recovered. £ s. d.
Canterbury Provincial District—continued.
Fairlie	9	97 4 4	11	248 16 11	155 7 2
Geraldine	22	140 0 1	12	94 19 5	94 19 5
Kaiapoi	13	113 16 5	4	43 12 9	43 12 9
Leeston†	25	185 17 2	3	18 9 2	18 9 2
Little River	2	32 4 0	1	2 16 0	2 16 0
Lyttelton	23	227 12 0	14	77 9 4	76 9 4
Methven	14	187 0 2	14	187 0 2	132 12 5
Oxford	5	91 17 2	5	91 17 2	65 7 8
Rangiora	30	325 18 1	11	310 7 1	261 1 2
Southbridge	2	11 3 6	1	5 14 6	5 14 6
South Rakaia	10	67 9 8	5	22 9 3	12 19 3
Temuka	61	235 9 6	41	186 2 3	172 9 3
Timaru	251	2,454 9 3	139	1,639 12 8	1,412 17 9
Waimate	82	431 6 4	43	359 0 4	275 8 5
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	6	31 5 2	2	14 2 0	14 2 0
Arrowtown	4	29 2 11	4	29 2 11	29 2 11
Balclutha	41	285 18 2	28	230 17 9	166 14 3
Black’s	1	1 5 1	1	1 5 1	..
Campbelltown	10	84 6 8	8	87 14 7	83 7 11
Clinton	4	12 9 2	3	5 6 11	5 6 11
Clyde	3	77 11 4	3	109 18 9	90 0 11
Cromwell	4	20 5 6	2	8 10 6	8 10 6
Dunedin	937	7,745 1 4	451	3,991 6 1	3,660 5 4
Gore	79	1,277 13 1	34	580 8 7	509 2 6
Hampden	3	18 8 2	..	..	..
Hyde	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	418	4,384 17 5	269	2,358 16 5	2,214 13 4
Kaitangata	4	14 1 3	7	12 9 3	12 9 3
Kurow	2	33 18 3	2	33 18 3	2 17 6
Lawrence	16	177 9 10	7	127 7 6	108 13 9
Lumsden	8	49 15 5	5	19 12 8	19 12 8
Macrae’s	..	..	..	..	..
Mataura	36	488 4 4	40	488 4 4	301 5 5
Middlemarch	5	36 0 0	3	3 0 0	3 0 0
Milton	7	17 19 10	4	14 11 5	14 11 5
Mosgiel	9	25 14 1	4	9 17 3	9 17 3
Naseby	7	126 13 10	5	73 16 4	64 11 10
Oamaru	97	926 6 10	48	314 10 8	293 10 2
Orepuki	5	29 16 8	2	5 4 2	5 4 2
Otatutau	22	373 4 7	11	42 14 10	41 2 7
Outram	2	16 19 6	2	13 3 6	13 3 6
Owaka	11	104 12 1	10	99 14 1	99 14 1
Palmerston South	7	263 14 3	4	35 5 9	30 4 3
Patearoa	1	12 0 0	1	12 0 0	12 0 0
Pembroke	..	..	..	..	..
Port Chalmers	7	86 5 1	4	9 13 0	7 3 0
Queenstown	4	31 9 7	3	26 0 1	26 0 1
Riverton	68	614 12 11	30	409 10 9	396 10 6
Roxburgh	12	297 14 3	7	158 18 9	158 18 9
St. Bathan’s	1	8 0 9	1	8 0 9	8 0 9
Stewart Island	5	34 1 0	4	24 18 10	16 11 5
Tapanui	13	139 1 1	9	110 7 2	85 7 2
Waikaia	7	101 10 4	3	28 8 7	24 18 7
Waikouaiti	5	11 4 2	8	40 13 1	12 19 1
Winton	42	260 19 6	36	220 5 6	179 12 3
Wyndham	28	306 4 5	16	188 0 8	189 11 2
Totals ..	14,072	172,596 13 0	8,296	98,031 17 7	86,429 3 9

TABLE III.—Showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1916, in which MAORIS were concerned.

		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	1,000	13,579 12 4	738	9,116 7 4	8,508 17 1
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	24	779 5 5	23	408 16 10	203 12 10
In which Maoris only were concerned	57	1,492 0 4	48	709 1 0	433 10 6
Totals ..	1,081	15,850 18 1	809	10,234 5 2	9,146 0 5