New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 50

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 50

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	4	46 14 1	3	15 11 3	15 11 3
Kaiapoi	13	283 0 2	6	175 19 6	33 19 6
Leeston	..	..	..	..	..
Little River	2	28 8 0	..	..	..
Lyttelton	7	60 9 0	6	26 1 0	26 1 0
Methven	39	480 11 2	33	335 5 1	335 5 1
Oxford..	2	21 6 0	1	6 6 0	6 6 0
Rangiora	28	431 10 5	4	376 14 5	111 9 5
Southbridge	..	..	..	..	..
South Rakaia	1	7 1 11	1	7 1 11	..
Temuka	19	201 4 7	9	69 0 0	32 19 0
Timaru	93	1,131 18 2	59	795 8 5	753 14 7
Waimate	43	487 12 10	23	193 14 6	181 14 6
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	2	50 14 9	7	22 11 11	22 11 11
Arrowtown	..	..	..	..	..
Balclutha	20	271 0 3	22	289 3 8	229 3 8
Black’s	..	..	2	9 10 1	9 10 1
Bluff ..	8	68 12 11	6	60 16 8	37 10 11
Clinton	2	30 10 0	2	30 10 0	30 10 0
Clyde ..	4	11 10 3	3	14 16 4	6 13 5
Cromwell	6	99 16 8	2	22 17 2	22 17 2
Dunedin	565	7,656 19 3	286	2,671 18 10	2,429 13 2
Gore ..	52	810 18 10	36	538 9 4	466 7 7
Hampden	4	32 17 1	3	5 8 1	5 8 1
Invercargill	185	3,362 8 4	83	1,304 11 3	1,242 15 5
Kaitangata	177	890 8 2	53	514 15 5	101 15 5
Kurow	5	44 0 6	..	..	..
Lawrence	11	90 13 0	6	54 6 8	52 16 8
Lumsden	..	..	..	..	..
Macrae’s	..	..	..	..	..
Mataura	40	346 11 2	29	346 11 2	328 19 11
Middlemarch	1	9 17 6	..	..	..
Milton	8	49 10 8	5	29 8 10	29 8 10
Mosgiel	2	27 0 2	1	12 13 6	12 13 6
Naseby	3	79 11 8	1	6 17 6	..
Oamaru	57	379 10 11	14	86 2 6	86 2 6
Orepuki	18	235 0 2	13	114 4 2	114 4 2
Otatau	38	346 10 6	31	284 19 8	221 8 11
Outram	7	51 2 8	5	33 5 8	27 10 4
Owaka	2	8 3 1	2	8 7 0	8 6 2
Palmerston	1	5 10 0	1	5 10 0	5 10 0
Port Chalmers	2	99 18 11	2	99 18 11	99 18 11
Queenstown	1	2 13 11	1	2 13 11	2 13 11
Riverton	20	246 19 6	16	157 13 5	95 11 5
Roxburgh	2	123 15 0	3	76 10 3	67 6 6
St. Bathan’s	1	4 18 11	1	4 18 11	4 18 11
Stewart Island	..	..	..	..	..
Tapanui	3	135 8 8	2	134 11 9	94 15 9
Waikaia	1	1 16 2	1	1 16 2	1 16 2
Waikouaiti	..	..	1	5 2 5	5 2 5
Winton	6	19 7 3	3	13 8 1	13 8 1
Wyndham	24	207 8 9	13	89 1 9	67 16 9
Totals	10,410	160,026 18 5	6,249	92,913 5 11	77,243 12 6

TABLE showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1920, 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 ..	9,437	146,234 8 3	5,588	83,841 4 1	69,363 7 0
,, ..	Maori ..	840	11,320 9 1	593	7,575 15 10	7,067 4 3
Maori ..	European ..	54	1,124 3 8	27	636 5 10	339 7 9
,, ..	Maori ..	79	1,347 17 5	41	920 0 2	473 13 6
	Totals ..	10,410	160,026 18 5	6,249	92,913 5 11	77,243 12 6