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✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

2088 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 86

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	3,981	54,958 1 6	2,247	29,569 16 10	24,970 19 11
Darfield	74	515 18 0	55	294 6 5	231 12 9
Fairlie	51	265 1 2	45	407 15 5	236 16 6
Geraldine	48	546 16 6	30	184 3 11	184 3 11
Kaiapoi	32	357 15 0	16	146 16 6	133 11 6
Leeston	35	341 1 9	27	270 2 8	208 12 11
Little River	18	222 10 5	11	150 14 10	142 15 11
Lyttelton	56	557 10 4	29	244 5 10	243 5 10
Methven	32	499 8 10	32	499 8 10	312 6 9
Oxford..	21	369 3 2	17	330 2 7	284 3 3
Rangiora	132	1,250 10 3	61	755 18 11	668 1 7
Southbridge	15	78 13 5	10	50 19 0	50 19 0
South Rakai'a	18	103 16 7	17	91 18 7	82 8 7
Temuka	171	868 19 8	118	692 12 8	552 19 7
Timaru	692	7,266 3 2	424	4,746 13 10	4,289 4 7
Waimate	261	1,922 2 6	145	1,200 5 11	1,068 3 2
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	62	590 6 2	42	511 19 11	383 3 7
Arrowtown	5	34 2 11	5	34 2 11	34 2 11
Balclutha	164	1,934 11 3	104	979 8 10	681 5 5
Black's	10	40 3 5	12	50 3 1	36 18 0
Bluff ..	62	297 13 4	42	181 16 5	177 9 9
Clinton	17	72 0 3	12	50 9 4	43 0 4
Clyde ..	24	336 5 5	23	222 17 3	186 8 5
Cromwell	19	200 2 3	13	137 11 3	118 17 11
Dunedin	3,326	33,181 8 4	1,702	17,690 10 7	16,191 15 6
Gore ..	295	4,509 4 9	188	2,890 8 10	2,172 19 2
Hampden	11	121 14 7	10	102 13 2	102 13 2
Hyde ..	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	1,603	19,426 13 3	936	9,865 12 11	8,961 19 4
Kaitangata	28	234 19 8	32	252 3 1	167 7 11
Kurow..	16	138 0 5	13	98 12 7	61 12 10
Lawrence	58	578 1 3	24	384 0 4	282 10 2
Lumsden	36	635 19 7	26	238 14 6	238 14 6
Macrae's	3	9 6 0	..	..	..
Mataura	74	1,171 10 8	77	1,104 0 2	765 15 8
Middlemarch	11	69 19 6	5	8 15 3	8 15 3
Milton	52	507 11 11	30	230 5 6	211 0 3
Mosgiel	49	341 16 4	29	225 17 1	137 19 0
Naseby	26	469 15 7	18	346 4 7	331 17 9
Oamaru	431	4,602 12 8	253	3,690 0 3	3,122 8 5
Orepuki	43	216 8 1	21	132 12 6	122 2 6
Otatau	168	1,288 3 9	100	646 10 10	585 16 4
Outram	9	169 19 11	9	166 3 11	130 4 8
Owaka	50	805 6 7	43	475 3 9	462 15 5
Palmerston	32	734 7 3	32	411 11 11	163 17 0
Patearoa	1	12 0 0	1	12 0 0	12 0 0
Pembroke	2	51 11 11	..	..	..
Port Chalmers	31	163 5 3	15	46 6 4	43 7 4
Queenstown	31	513 13 6	26	382 2 3	341 10 11
Riverton	185	1,540 10 4	121	1,037 8 8	933 11 11
Roxburgh	49	651 4 1	32	328 5 7	328 5 7
St. Bathan's	3	20 15 3	2	18 0 9	18 0 9
Stewart Island ..	12	80 11 0	12	78 10 2	70 2 9
Tapanui	51	453 5 3	38	247 7 3	215 18 0
Waikai'a	11	127 19 4	10	57 13 3	48 17 10
Waikouaiti	17	55 11 2	16	70 2 4	21 17 4
Winton	151	1,414 11 2	129	1,197 0 8	755 16 9
Wyndham	98	1,713 13 3	55	704 10 2	547 2 8
Totals ..	49,806	639,921 18 8	31,064	395,779 8 5	339,846 13 5

TABLE III.—Showing Summary of Civil Cases Heard during the Year 1916, in which Maoris were concerned.

		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	4,159	51,935 6 11	3,270	39,589 19 2	35,780 11 2
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	119	3,049 6 9	89	2,086 1 5	1,332 1 11
In which Maoris only were concerned ..	248	5,452 0 2	188	3,734 13 0	2,384 2 6
Totals ..	4,526	60,436 13 10	3,547	45,410 13 7	39,496 15 7