New Zealand Gazette – 1918 – No. 68

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Civil Cases Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.—CIVIL CASES.

TABLE 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.
		£ s. d.
Canterbury Provincial District—continued.
Christchurch	4,260	57,786 5 4
Darfield	30	323 9 7
Fairlie	34	206 1 9
Geraldine	41	403 2 5
Kaiapoi	47	517 19 11
Leeston	33	461 10 10
Little River	15	129 17 2
Lyttelton	75	601 14 7
Methven	55	1,088 17 6
Oxford..	14	212 8 10
Rangiora	102	1,251 11 0
Southbridge	8	59 4 9
South Rakaia	12	159 19 1
Temuka	182	1,694 4 1
Timaru	543	7,826 5 2
Waimate	315	2,720 8 11
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	33	345 19 7
Arrowtown	3	29 13 1
Balclutha	135	1,579 13 0
Black’s	6	66 10 8
Bluff ..	61	475 8 4
Clinton	10	61 9 10
Clyde ..	10	87 16 9
Cromwell	37	490 11 6
Dunedin	2,571	23,680 9 2
Gore ..	276	3,479 11 5
Hampden	7	37 3 11
Hyde ..	1	12 16 7
Invercargill	1,216	14,111 10 2
Kaitangata	15	123 2 10
Kurow..	11	153 19 6
Lawrence	34	404 10 5
Lumsden	19	162 5 9
Macrae’s	2	28 1 6
Mataura	64	309 7 5
Middlemarch	10	57 3 2
Milton ..	43	631 1 5
Mosgiel	55	690 14 11
Naseby	19	359 12 1
Oamaru	439	4,649 12 0
Orepuki	37	205 12 2
Otatau	101	1,124 6 1
Outram	8	77 15 9
Owaka..	44	451 5 1
Palmerston	15	97 12 8
Patearoa	..	..
Port Chalmers ..	42	309 4 5
Queenstown	25	184 10 10
Riverton	114	1,034 12 7
Roxburgh	43	453 15 3
St. Bathan’s	2	11 0 0
Stewart Island ..	..	..
Tapanui	30	737 17 3
Waikaiia	8	73 10 11
Waikouaiti	19	73 7 1
Winton	109	1,196 16 10
Wyndham	56	1,081 0 9
Totals ..	46,004	624,692 14 5

TABLE showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Year 1917, in which MAORIS were concerned.

		£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
In which Europeans were plaintiffs and Maoris defendants	4,108	55,864 4 10	3,203	43,585 6 10	39,507 4 10
In which Maoris were plaintiffs and Europeans defendants	119	3,571 4 11	68	2,247 18 6	1,213 15 3
In which Maoris only were concerned ..	166	4,654 10 4	104	2,344 10 3	1,522 13 11
Totals ..	4,393	64,090 0 1	3,375	48,177 15 7	42,243 14 0