New Zealand Gazette – 1916 – No. 77

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

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 Year. (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.	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Total Amount recovered.
		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Canterbury Provincial District—continued.
Christchurch	4,978	59,731 4 3	2,257	35,478 7 9	31,827 18 4
Darfield	54	676 14 11	47	541 9 6	280 0 4
Fairlie	109	1,059 9 10	105	722 18 10	510 17 2
Geraldine	58	467 11 2	52	253 10 11	235 14 10
Kaiapoi	64	818 5 10	37	618 5 1	555 12 0
Leeston	25	380 9 7	21	347 16 8	244 14 10
Little River	20	322 12 2	16	256 15 3	252 9 0
Lyttelton	79	507 10 1	50	365 19 7	346 15 7
Methven	30	467 11 6	33	467 11 6	325 11 4
Oxford..	46	510 11 5	32	299 6 5	261 15 5
Rangiora	156	1,744 17 11	73	752 3 1	498 5 8
Southbridge	25	156 12 4	23	161 2 8	103 5 6
South Rakaiā	13	74 15 7	3	19 11 10	17 11 10
Temuka	216	1,412 13 11	155	995 14 2	920 11 11
Timaru	901	8,962 17 5	558	4,507 13 10	4,292 5 9
Waimate	269	2,744 11 0	157	1,730 17 0	1,207 8 5
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	51	296 7 1	42	233 3 9	218 2 2
Arrowtown	17	203 3 9	14	148 8 8	148 8 8
Balclutha	232	2,313 15 3	170	1,193 2 1	1,040 7 4
Black’s	14	169 4 1	10	90 2 11	87 17 11
Campbelltown	88	365 3 3	45	209 2 6	179 10 8
Clinton	17	122 1 8	14	113 13 11	70 1 5
Clyde ..	26	224 15 10	32	89 18 9	77 18 6
Cromwell	56	554 4 11	34	320 5 9	269 2 10
Dunedin	3,947	34,750 9 0	2,129	18,028 19 0	16,435 17 4
Gore ..	362	3,774 9 6	244	2,396 12 10	2,094 19 1
Hampden	3	10 8 0	2	8 5 2	8 5 2
Hyde ..	3	13 9 8	2	10 7 3	10 7 3
Invercargill	2,199	20,784 10 11	1,196	10,816 19 7	9,872 15 7
Kaitangata	19	121 18 4	19	54 17 3	54 12 3
Kurow	55	350 5 5	47	229 9 4	143 18 1
Lawrence	71	645 12 9	28	137 2 11	91 15 5
Lumsden	33	409 5 10	38	466 0 0	398 13 10
Macrae’s	2	3 8 6	1	1 4 0	1 4 0
Mataura	95	825 13 4	87	692 6 7	558 7 2
Middlemarch	26	233 2 3	18	103 4 8	80 10 4
Milton	81	577 2 2	57	408 18 3	401 2 1
Mosgiel	28	278 1 8	27	243 12 8	243 12 8
Naseby	25	290 9 5	13	163 10 4	156 9 4
Oamaru	481	4,237 17 3	333	2,901 14 2	2,552 11 10
Orepuki	61	487 6 7	49	421 1 11	354 5 6
Otautau	226	1,785 15 10	150	1,233 17 10	1,059 8 1
Outram	12	328 3 3	8	114 2 6	71 0 5
Owaka	71	960 8 5	66	884 17 5	836 12 11
Palmerston South	88	931 15 3	86	897 7 5	509 4 0
Patearoa	3	49 4 2	..	..	..
Pembroke	16	276 17 6	6	112 0 7	50 14 0
Port Chalmers	71	316 11 1	38	212 8 1	183 0 10
Queenstown	21	204 1 6	20	207 8 5	180 16 10
Riverton	104	948 4 11	74	629 12 5	574 5 0
Roxburgh	75	877 5 3	49	611 13 1	599 9 7
St. Bathan’s	1	2 4 0	2	34 8 0	27 10 0
Stewart Island	11	69 5 5	7	45 1 2	45 1 2
Tapanui	35	456 16 4	25	447 13 11	183 16 6
Waikaia	11	63 17 11	8	51 9 7	50 7 1
Waikouaiti	29	262 15 4	23	171 17 9	154 4 7
Winton	225	1,516 5 5	175	1,156 12 1	991 3 1
Wyndham	96	1,131 19 1	58	455 3 11	379 9 0
Totals ..	60,170	695,624 15 2	37,632	446,979 2 8	383,531 10 8

TABLE showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Year ended 31st December, 1915, in which MAORIS were concerned.

		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	961	10,422 8 11	784	9,341 15 9	8,347 17 6
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	38	586 2 9	27	290 16 2	216 9 6
In which Maoris only were concerned ..	69	819 2 9	56	938 18 7	513 11 2
Totals ..	1,068	11,827 14 5	867	10,571 10 6	9,077 18 2