New Zealand Gazette – 1918 – No. 162

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 162

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.
	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Total Amount recovered.
		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Canterbury Provincial District—continued.
Christchurch	799	10,445 10 10	654	8,689 19 3	7,874 0 1
Darfield	10	81 12 5	9	77 16 7	77 16 7
Fairlie	10	219 10 9	7	185 4 1	182 10 9
Geraldine	8	201 13 6	10	198 2 3	198 2 3
Kaiapoi	16	78 5 9	5	40 0 1	37 9 7
Leeston	5	230 9 8	5	54 2 2	40 2 2
Little River	..	..	..	..	..
Lyttelton	7	89 12 8	16	62 2 9	62 2 9
Methven	10	162 13 0	7	116 19 0	116 19 0
Oxford..	2	14 17 2	2	14 17 2	14 17 2
Rangiora	18	281 4 0	3	41 15 6	41 15 6
Southbridge	2	8 10 11	2	23 6 6	7 14 6
South Rakaia	11	61 19 8	8	50 17 1	8 8 7
Temuka	40	247 1 3	40	208 12 0	191 18 1
Timaru	149	2,250 6 4	92	1,577 15 9	1,444 0 5
Waimate	46	613 8 1	27	325 6 10	270 4 0

Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	5	106 17 4	5	85 12 8	85 12 8
Arrowtown	..	..	..	..	..
Balclutha	40	304 1 10	35	197 11 9	142 4 7
Black’s	5	13 1 6	5	13 1 6	8 0 0
Bluff	15	101 11 7	8	58 11 6	56 5 4
Clinton	11	36 16 11	6	21 4 1	19 9 1
Clyde	27	92 14 9	2	21 8 5	21 8 5
Cromwell	7	310 12 11	6	137 12 5	51 2 9
Dunedin	727	7,008 12 7	359	2,943 17 9	2,835 9 2
Gore	53	483 6 4	38	395 18 3	356 12 6
Hampden	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	336	3,509 17 3	153	1,324 12 8	1,093 16 10
Kaitangata	6	70 10 3	8	76 6 5	14 16 5
Kurow	2	7 18 11	2	7 18 11	7 18 11
Lawrence	33	316 1 4	14	162 9 10	154 8 10
Lumsden	5	64 15 3	3	5 17 8	5*17 8
Macrae’s	1	29 7 0	..	..	..
Mataura	6	73 15 11	6	73 15 11	73 15 11
Middlemarch	2	1 10 0	5	14 13 5	13 3 5
Milton	7	54 16 11	7	61 1 5	61 1 5
Mosgiel	11	173 6 9	1	3 4 4	2 4 4
Naseby	7	88 3 2	3	27 7 6	2 7 0
Oamaru	53	892 11 11	27	385 6 3	223 12 7
Orepuki	6	99 5 7	2	27 10 0	27 10 0
Otatau	28	357 6 2	16	269 5 8	170 19 11
Outram	1	12 0 0	2	37 13 4	25 13 4
Owaka	7	80 11 8	4	55 0 2	31 5 2
Palmerston	12	97 1 2	12	68 7 2	33 18 9
Port Chalmers	12	115 8 2	1	11 16 0	11 16 0
Queenstown	3	13 12 7	..	..	..
Riverton	15	141 13 3	13	54 1 1	51 1 1
Roxburgh	7	144 4 10	12	112 6 2	112 6 2
St. Bathan’s	1	5 11 6	..	..	..
Stewart Island	..	..	..	..	..
Tapanui	10	49 19 9	4	49 2 4	49 2 4
Waikaia	1	16 10 1	..	..	..
Waikouaiti	1	4 0 0	1	4 0 0	4 0 0
Winton	14	153 6 9	23	130 4 3	92 19 5
Wyndham	22	159 19 0	14	154 19 0	154 19 0
Totals	10,659	153,540 1 2	7,137	106,232 16 3	90,010 2 9

TABLE III.—Showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1918, according to Race of Plaintiff and Defendant.

Plaintiff.	Defendant.	Plaints entered.		Cases tried and disposed of during Quarter
		Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Total Amount recovered.
			£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
European	European	9,556	140,421 6 4	6,246	94,565 7 1	80,216 15 0
..	Maori	1,046	11,674 18 0	833	10,308 8 4	9,044 11 1
Maori	European	11	507 9 1	17	397 8 10	226 17 10
..	Maori	46	936 7 9	41	961 12 10	521 18 10
	Totals	10,659	153,540 1 2	7,137	106,232 16 3	90,010 2 9