✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics
Statistics, 1915.—Magistrates’ Courts.
Census and Statistics Office, Wellington, 3rd July, 1916.
THE following tables showing the number of persons brought before the several Magistrates’ Courts in New Zealand during the Year 1915, the offences charged, and the Civil cases heard, are published for general information.
MALCOLM FRASER, F.S.S., Government Statistician.
MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.
TABLE I.—Showing NUMBER of PERSONS brought before the several MAGISTRATES’ COURTS in New Zealand during the Year ended 31st December, 1915, and summarily dealt with, &c.
| Courts. | Arrested or summoned. Total Offences, including Multiple Charges, each Offence being reckoned as a Distinct Person. | Discharged for Want of Prosecution or Want of Evidence. | Dismissed on the Merits. | Committed for Sentence. | Committed for Trial. | Summary Convictions. | Classification of Summary Convictions, according to Offences. | Excluding Multiple Charges included in Previous Columns. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Against the Person only. | ||||||||
| Sexual Offences. | Assaults and other Offences. | |||||||
| Burglary, Housebreaking, and Stealing; Robbery and Stealing from the Person. | Cattle and Sheep Stealing, Theft, and other Offences against Property only. | |||||||
| Forgery and Offences against the Currency. | Against Good Order. | |||||||
| Drunk, including Habitual Drunkards. | ||||||||
| Prohibition Orders. | ||||||||
| Other Offences | ||||||||
| Revenue Acts. | ||||||||
| Selling Liquor without a License. | ||||||||
| Other Breaches. | ||||||||
| Offences relating to carrying out Laws and against Public Welfare. | ||||||||
| Distinct Arrests or Summons. | ||||||||
| Distinct Summary Convictions. | ||||||||
| Auckland Provincial District— | ||||||||
| Ahipara— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Summons | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Auckland— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 4,214 | 3,659 | 555 | 133 | 18 | 79 | 11 |
| Summons | .. | 2,920 | 2,708 | 212 | 477 | 32 | 242 | 23 |
| Cambridge— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 56 | 56 | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | .. |
| Summons | .. | 37 | 37 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. |
| Coromandel— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 28 | 26 | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
| Summons | .. | 50 | 46 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 9 | .. |
| Dargaville— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 51 | 51 | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | .. |
| Summons | .. | 155 | 153 | 2 | 3 | .. | 15 | .. |
| Gisborne— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 642 | 611 | 31 | 12 | .. | 5 | 1 |
| Summons | .. | 659 | 634 | 25 | 69 | 3 | 26 | .. |
| Hamilton— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 335 | 310 | 25 | 12 | .. | 3 | .. |
| Summons | .. | 434 | 399 | 35 | 63 | 3 | 18 | 2 |
| Helensville— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 27 | 27 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Summons | .. | 23 | 23 | .. | 5 | .. | 1 | .. |
| Hikurangi— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Summons | .. | 55 | 51 | 4 | .. | .. | 2 | .. |
| Hohoura— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Summons | .. | 19 | 19 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Huntly— | ||||||||
| Arrest | .. | 35 | 34 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. |
| Summons | .. | 78 | 77 | 1 | 1 | .. | 6 | 1 |
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⚖️ Magistrates' Courts Statistics for 1915
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement3 July 1916
Statistics, Magistrates' Courts, Offences, Convictions, Discharges, Commitments
- Malcolm Fraser, F.S.S., Government Statistician