New Zealand Gazette – 1919 – No. 131

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 131

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

TABLE 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	3	125 9 3	4	117 12 7	112 5 1
Kaiapoi	8	40 13 3	6	34 10 3	34 10 3
Leeston	3	51 3 0	1	11 2 3	11 2 3
Little River	1	40 0 0	6	81 17 11	41 17 11
Lyttelton	12	204 6 5	3	21 3 11	21 3 11
Methven	3	83 16 3	3	83 16 3	83 16 3
Oxford..	5	47 8 6	4	41 12 11	34 0 5
Rangiora	27	270 6 4	16	129 10 5	129 10 5
Southbridge	..	..	..	..	..
South Rakaia	4	28 10 0	7	70 18 1	5 17 6
Temuka	23	309 5 3	16	462 8 7	433 15 7
Timaru	114	2,354 4 2	50	930 14 7	877 2 6
Waimate	48	364 7 9	23	171 4 4	147 0 4
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	6	80 2 1	5	92 1 1	39 7 9
Arrowtown	2	9 14 1	1	20 0 0	20 0 0
Balclutha	64	925 17 7	38	686 13 3	519 16 9
Black’s	1	23 11 3	2	56 13 10	56 13 10
Bluff ..	5	32 11 4	7	37 10 11	37 10 11
Clinton	3	15 2 9	3	15 15 9	15 15 9
Clyde ..	15	33 6 6	14	37 10 1	37 10 1
Cromwell	4	17 0 0	2	3 3 0	3 3 0
Dunedin	445	4,896 4 4	296	3,136 18 1	2,520 3 7
Gore ..	72	868 12 8	52	648 10 0	623 3 3
Hampden	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	259	4,440 17 2	123	2,665 0 1	2,451 19 1
Kaitangata	2	9 12 9	8	54 13 5	23 19 4
Kurow	..	..	..	..	..
Lawrence	13	186 5 2	3	133 4 10	133 4 10
Lumsden	..	..	1	8 18 9	8 18 9
Macrae’s	..	..	..	..	..
Mataura	24	68 17 0	14	68 17 0	61 11 0
Middlemarch	3	51 11 2	4	51 11 2	51 11 2
Milton	15	130 1 1	12	98 0 2	87 0 2
Mosgiel	10	34 5 10	5	12 7 1	12 7 1
Naseby	4	43 6 1	2	15 0 0	15 0 0
Oamaru	20	226 4 2	12	64 17 4	64 17 4
Orepuki	2	16 13 4	2	16 13 4	16 13 4
Otatau	22	111 1 5	22	162 5 0	147 5 0
Outram	2	15 17 11	3	24 15 9	24 15 9
Owaka	..	..	..	..	..
Palmerston	1	16 7 3	2	19 14 5	19 14 5
Port Chalmers	4	51 4 11	4	30 15 3	30 15 3
Queenstown	4	33 14 10	6	42 3 2	42 3 2
Riverton	17	225 14 10	19	179 4 11	95 17 3
Roxburgh	10	123 13 3	5	39 10 3	36 13 3
St. Bathan’s	..	..	..	..	..
Stewart Island	..	..	..	..	..
Tapanui	4	91 5 6	7	91 5 6	50 1 6
Waikaia	3	11 11 2	2	9 15 0	9 15 0
Waikouaiti	2	26 5 9	6	92 13 9	91 15 8
Winton	5	93 8 1	6	52 17 10	52 17 1
Wyndham	7	128 4 8	4	75 10 8	75 10 8
Totals ..	10,250	162,464 9 7	6,555	97,357 0 4	82,240 5 9

TABLE showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1919, 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 ..	9,028	144,528 19 5	5,655	85,293 10 7	71,381 13 2
„ ..	Maori ..	1,124	15,769 7 4	828	10,701 14 3	9,991 3 6
Maori ..	European ..	24	834 18 11	18	404 5 5	331 8 9
„ ..	Maori ..	74	1,331 3 11	54	957 10 1	536 0 4
	Totals ..	10,250	162,464 9 7	6,555	97,357 0 4	82,240 5 9