New Zealand Gazette – 1917 – No. 102

Page 2473

✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

JUNE 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2473

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.	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Total Amount recovered.
		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Canterbury Provincial District—continued.
Geraldine	16	213 9 2	14	201 9 10	201 9 10
Kaiapoi	4	42 14 6	2	30 0 0	30 0 0
Leeston	12	157 5 10	1	36 14 3	36 14 3
Little River	3	76 19 11	5	76 19 11	7 10 0
Lyttelton	22	198 7 6	9	71 4 3	71 4 3
Methven	20	246 18 11	9	108 5 3	80 5 3
Oxford..	2	96 16 10	1	12 16 10	12 16 10
Rangiora	27	233 12 9	12	124 0 6	114 0 6
Southbridge	2	7 8 8	..	..	..
South Rakaia	3	20 10 5	2	20 2 4	20 2 4
Temuka	81	511 12 2	74	248 13 4	248 13 4
Timaru	144	1,921 3 10	75	1,141 3 8	988 15 7
Waimate	96	814 7 10	51	509 15 4	473 8 4
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	5	30 0 11	2	12 18 6	12 18 6
Arrowtown	2	10 9 6	1	4 0 0	4 0 0
Balclutha	53	625 10 1	40	349 8 7	335 4 5
Black’s	..	..	..	..	..
Bluff ..	14	140 6 8	7	95 5 6	86 10 6
Clinton	5	48 0 0	4	41 10 11	41 10 11
Clyde ..	1	6 0 0	3	107 10 4	3 2 6
Cromwell	14	152 16 4	4	93 16 0	59 16 0
Dunedin	688	6,262 19 10	257	2,715 16 6	2,616 5 0
Gore ..	89	1,075 10 6	47	963 9 0	644 11 6
Hampden	2	20 3 9	1	18 0 0	18 0 0
Hyde ..	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	400	4,582 5 9	257	2,648 16 7	2,230 14 3
Kaitangata	4	23 17 4	4	7 8 3	7 8 3
Kurow	5	90 15 6	3	66 7 6	54 17 6
Lawrence	4	92 19 6	4	68 15 8	16 5 0
Lumsden	3	14 0 0	3	14 0 0	14 0 0
Macrae’s	2	28 1 6	2	6 11 0	6 7 6
Mataura	26	88 4 1	26	88 4 1	84 4 1
Middlemarch	1	7 6 2	..	..	..
Milton	8	80 1 2	8	191 16 7	94 4 7
Mosgiel	27	258 17 4	2	17 0 4	17 0 4
Naseby	8	187 6 4	3	31 16 9	28 2 3
Oamaru	165	1,448 12 2	92	866 13 9	628 14 10
Orepuki	9	37 11 11	2	19 6 9	15 13 4
Otatau	32	332 14 6	26	284 0 3	195 17 9
Outram	6	38 15 6	4	15 7 6	15 7 6
Owaka..	8	27 0 3	6	155 15 6	145 15 6
Palmerston	5	26 19 8	6	65 5 8	25 13 0
Patearoa	..	..	..	..	..
Port Chalmers ..	13	73 12 5	9	42 3 10	42 3 10
Queenstown	13	63 6 6	14	159 19 2	158 19 2
Riverton	46	394 16 6	20	194 13 4	140 11 9
Roxburgh	15	157 13 2	12	135 5 9	87 1 6
St. Bathan’s	1	1 0 0	1	1 0 0	1 0 0
Stewart Island ..	..	..	..	..	..
Tapanui	11	286 1 3	10	243 0 11	238 0 11
Waikai	3	10 3 2	2	7 1 1	7 1 1
Waikouaiti	..	..	3	18 19 0	18 19 0
Winton	31	436 6 8	40	716 19 4	502 2 1
Wyndham	21	614 18 3	10	311 18 11	291 3 5
Totals ..	12,361	162,335 9 7	7,424	100,480 13 3	86,547 17 1

TABLE III.—Showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1917, in
which MAORIS were concerned.

		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	911	12,076 16 3	699	8,950 7 8	8,164 16 8
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	24	783 7 0	12	368 8 5	289 15 4
In which Maoris only were concerned	35	877 7 8	16	257 15 0	205 18 0
Totals ..	970	13,737 10 11	727	9,576 11 1	8,660 10 0