New Zealand Gazette – 1917 – No. 136

Page 3363

✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

Aug. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3363

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	13	139 17 7	10	60 15 8	60 15 8
Kaiapoi	4	106 6 9	4	106 6 9	106 6 9
Leeston	6	71 19 5	5	64 15 7	38 15 7
Little River	4	8 0 4	3	7 5 4	7 5 4
Lyttelton	22	184 7 6	12	90 0 10	89 5 10
Methven	8	188 8 10	8	188 8 10	151 13 9
Oxford..	3	43 16 7	2	23 13 4	1 0 0
Rangiora	29	488 15 9	20	121 8 7	32 11 6
Southbridge	1	13 13 4	1	3 17 10	3 17 0
South Rakaia	6	74 14 4	4	44 4 10	26 4 10
Temuka	44	324 17 1	38	324 15 8	311 5 2
Timaru	141	2,280 4 0	88	675 10 5	477 0 1
Waimate	84	504 2 10	49	463 8 7	423 4 7
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	7	83 11 6	4	35 0 6	35 0 6
Arrowtown	27	324 4 1	19	286 15 0	261 15 0
Balclutha
Black’s	22	91 10 7	12	52 9 0	50 0 6
Bluff ..	2	4 13 0	1	2 3 6	2 3 6
Clinton	1	6 0 0	1	6 0 0
Clyde ..	18	313 16 6	7	44 8 6	44 8 6
Cromwell	688	6,701 2 4	380	4,264 4 6	3,778 5 0
Dunedin	58	864 10 9	38	284 4 4	264 19 4
Gore ..	1	5 14 9	2	8 18 6	8 18 6
Hampden
Hyde ..	365	3,869 7 2	166	1,745 8 4	1,626 12 5
Invercargill	5	27 10 7	6	47 7 11	47 7 11
Kaitangata	2	15 17 1	6	100 8 5	54 17 9
Kurow	22	216 10 0	11	169 3 9	169 3 9
Lawrence	3	24 17 9	1	17 4 11	17 4 11
Lumsden
Macrae’s	12	54 1 4	12	54 1 4	39 5 2
Mataura	2	19 14 9
Middlemarch	14	468 18 9	6	57 14 5	57 14 5
Milton	6	191 8 3	20	362 0 11	353 10 11
Mosgiel	5	118 6 6	4	74 12 3	74 12 3
Naseby	123	1,065 10 4	74	740 6 0	665 9 10
Oamaru	8	71 15 10	17	118 11 11	77 6 9
Orepuki	36	419 18 7	19	184 0 5	157 3 0
Otatau
Outram	6	104 9 8	5	46 12 7	41 7 6
Owaka..	1	2 16 0	3	14 15 4	11 19 4
Palmerston
Patearoa	9	129 18 8	2	54 14 6	54 14 6
Port Chalmers	9	107 10 11	5	66 0 6	64 3 0
Queenstown	35	198 6 6	44	325 5 4	286 17 10
Riverton	10	131 9 5	4	79 15 9	61 13 5
Roxburgh
St. Bathan’s
Stewart Island
Tapanui	6	295 0 1	5	292 16 7	120 1 6
Waikai	3	51 9 7	3	30 12 11	6 14 0
Waikouaiti	17	61 15 6	12	38 18 5	34 14 5
Winton	31	170 11 6	22	149 12 0	143 9 5
Wyndham	24	328 14 6	19	186 14 5	158 14 8
Totals ..	11,309	152,438 19 11	7,443	96,590 13 3	83,948 18 0

TABLE III.—Showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 30th June, 1917, in which MAORIS were concerned.

		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	862	12,629 15 2	749	10,790 0 11	9,774 0 1
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	35	662 1 11	15	694 5 5	248 19 0
In which Maoris only were concerned ..	45	1,170 14 1	24	351 3 5	226 19 5
Totals ..	942	14,462 11 2	788	11,835 9 9	10,249 18 6