New Zealand Gazette – 1919 – No. 62

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Civil Cases Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

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.
Christchurch	3,420	48,181 2 8	2,093	28,792 0 7	26,191 18 2
Darfield	48	443 8 10	38	296 17 7	290 6 7
Fairlie ..	25	368 13 1	19	269 10 3	241 5 1
Geraldine	33	580 13 2	32	482 18 9	468 4 8
Kaiapoi	46	432 5 7	21	266 10 11	191 7 5
Leeston	42	355 11 4	29	375 5 7	193 15 7
Little River	13	262 9 0	4	51 1 7	22 17 0
Lyttelton	56	428 3 6	45	355 2 11	300 9 5
Methven	32	420 8 11	34	405 3 8	390 3 8
Oxford..	7	40 5 1	15	26 8 2	26 2 8
Rangiora	72	1,099 8 9	29	628 0 9	437 14 10
Southbridge	7	42 2 10	8	64 9 4	48 17 4
South Rakaia	12	64 3 2	11	56 2 6	10 10 1
Temuka	133	1,033 3 2	92	716 19 5	632 13 9
Timaru	522	7,363 14 11	315	6,100 10 10	4,096 0 3
Waimate	189	2,278 7 6	104	1,120 9 6	800 6 10
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	17	204 13 0	12	129 18 10	129 18 10
Arrowtown	1	8 4 6	1	8 4 6	8 4 6
Balclutha	126	1,268 1 1	88	924 16 1	822 8 11
Black’s	9	40 17 10	11	98 11 11	90 16 5
Bluff ..	43	263 13 8	20	118 14 7	116 8 5
Clinton	21	113 13 11	13	58 14 10	56 7 10
Clyde ..	39	212 6 2	27	86 7 10	80 9 10
Cromwell	19	667 12 2	16	639 13 1	251 13 9
Dunedin	2,391	21,705 18 0	1,192	9,538 4 8	9,059 0 10
Gore ..	209	3,100 2 4	137	2,182 10 3	1,831 17 8
Hampden	1	10 0 0	..	..	..
Hyde ..	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	1,028	11,012 14 10	520	5,754 17 4	5,006 10 9
Kaitangata	21	230 15 10	22	233 7 0	138 15 11
Kurow..	3	23 1 2	5	45 13 8	45 13 8
Lawrence	69	652 11 6	25	240 0 7	231 19 7
Lumsden	15	161 17 6	13	143 14 6	95 19 10
Macrae’s	2	34 5 6	2	34 5 6	6 12 6
Mataura	36	478 10 8	36	478 10 8	278 0 10
Middlemarch	22	165 6 7	30	208 19 11	154 5 6
Milton ..	31	321 9 2	27	305 2 7	275 19 2
Mosgiel	37	522 4 11	26	350 12 4	309 12 4
Naseby	16	174 19 4	12	115 9 1	78 10 7
Oamaru	200	3,149 9 9	107	1,526 19 1	1,084 5 5
Orepuki	13	157 15 0	14	131 15 6	131 15 6
Otatau	91	1,013 7 0	50	547 4 5	417 7 0
Outram	7	86 3 6	5	52 12 10	40 12 10
Owaka..	23	236 7 8	23	256 19 3	233 4 3
Palmerston	28	177 3 10	28	151 12 11	81 4 0
Patearoa	..	..	..	..	..
Port Chalmers ..	28	287 9 0	16	227 18 0	214 14 0
Queenstown	12	157 12 0	7	121 9 10	121 9 10
Riverton	44	317 19 2	44	317 5 6	171 0 1
Roxburgh	66	694 4 3	31	304 18 3	304 18 3
St. Bathan’s	2	6 16 6	1	1 5 0	1 5 0
Stewart Island ..	..	..	..	..	..
Tapanui	25	104 16 8	8	59 15 1	59 15 1
Waikai	2	36 10 1	1	20 0 0	..
Waikouaiti	11	132 11 1	7	69 14 6	66 5 6
Winton	62	687 13 11	64	545 6 0	389 18 9
Wyndham	47	546 2 5	29	443 15 9	408 17 5
Totals ..	39,127	562,642 17 4	25,594	378,025 9 11	308,428 14 6

TABLE III.—Showing Summary of Civil Cases Heard during the Year ended 31st December, 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 ..	35,184	508,221 10 4	22,132	330,350 3 5	267,144 3 10
,, ..	Maori ..	3,699	48,138 1 1	3,249	42,015 9 8	38,083 13 2
Maori ..	European ..	84	2,412 7 0	75	1,852 11 8	1,012 17 3
,, ..	Maori ..	160	3,870 19 1	138	3,807 5 2	2,188 0 3
	Totals ..	39,127	562,642 17 6	25,594	378,025 9 11	308,428 14 6