✨ Criminal Cases Statistics
MAGISTRATES' COURTS.—CRIMINAL CASES.
TABLE showing the NUMBER of PERSONS brought before the several MAGISTRATES' COURTS in New Zealand during the Year 1919, and summarily dealt with, &c.—continued.
| Courts. | Arrested or summoned. Total Offences, including Multiple Charges, each Offence being reckoned as a Distinct Person. | Discharged for Want of Prosecution or Want of Evidence. | Dismissed on the Merits. | Admonished and Discharged. | Committed for Sentence. | Committed for Trial. | Summary Convictions. | Classification of Summary Convictions, according to Offences. | Excluding Multiple Charges included in Previous Columns. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Against the Person only. | |||||||||
| Sexual Offences. | Assaults and other Offences. | ||||||||
| Burglary, Housebreaking, and Stealing; Robbery and Stealing from the Person. | Cattle and Sheep Stealing, Theft, and other Offences against Property only. | ||||||||
| Forgery and Offences against the Currency. | Against Good Order. | ||||||||
| Drunk, including Habitual Drunkards. | |||||||||
| Prohibition Orders. | |||||||||
| Other Offences. | |||||||||
| Revenue Acts. | |||||||||
| Selling Liquor without a License. | |||||||||
| Other Breaches. | |||||||||
| Offences relating to carrying out Laws and against Public Welfare. | |||||||||
| Distinct Arrests or Summonses. | |||||||||
| Distinct Summary Convictions. | |||||||||
| Westland Provincial District—continued. | |||||||||
| Stafford— | |||||||||
| Arrest | M. & F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. |
| Summons | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Canterbury Provincial District— | |||||||||
| Akaroa— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 3 | 3 | .. | 4 | .. | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
| Summons | 148 | 147 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 140 | 1 |
| Amberley— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 5 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | .. |
| Summons | 30 | 29 | 1 | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | 24 | .. |
| Ashburton— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 46 | 44 | 2 | .. | .. | 7 | .. | 36 | 1 |
| Summons | 351 | 330 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 56 | 3 | 258 | 16 |
| Chatham Islands— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 9 | .. |
| Summons | 12 | 12 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 9 | .. |
| Christchurch— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 1,238 | 1,087 | 151 | 55 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 959 | 139 |
| Summons | 2,672 | 2,474 | 198 | 494 | 24 | 93 | 11 | 1,836 | 156 |
| Darfield— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 10 | 10 | .. | 5 | .. | 3 | .. | 9 | .. |
| Summons | 29 | 24 | 5 | 5 | .. | 3 | .. | 16 | 5 |
| Fairlie— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 7 | 7 | .. | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
| Summons | 43 | 35 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 5 |
| Geraldine— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. |
| Summons | 11 | 11 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 11 | .. |
| Kaiapoi— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 10 | 10 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 8 | .. |
| Summons | 71 | 68 | 3 | 8 | .. | 3 | 1 | 53 | 2 |
| Leeston— | |||||||||
| Arrest | 28 | 25 | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 22 | 2 |
| Summons | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
[No. 38
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
0911
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