New Zealand Gazette – 1921 – No. 61

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Civil Cases Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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MAGISTRATES’ COURTS—continued.

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.
Lyttelton	20	274 19 10	7	209 17 11	209 17 11
Methven	24	487 1 8	25	487 1 8	447 15 1
Oxford..	..	..	..	..	..
Rangiora	48	504 8 9	16	350 2 3	249 11 0
Southbridge	3	21 11 10	1	8 0 0	8 0 0
South Rakaia	3	56 9 0	5	175 15 1	166 0 1
Temuka	34	475 16 3	25	134 6 3	114 6 3
Timaru	159	2,292 18 10	89	1,036 8 6	968 6 3
Waimate	73	1,184 11 3	30	483 3 9	424 5 11
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	14	166 17 11	4	47 10 8	44 5 2
Arrowtown	1	3 0 0	..	..	..
Balclutha	47	879 5 9	32	483 1 8	335 10 4
Black’s	4	76 15 0	2	67 18 8	67 18 8
Bluff ..	12	159 8 4	8	108 2 5	108 2 5
Clinton	4	29 14 4	..	..	..
Clyde ..	4	32 9 10	2	12 13 6	12 13 6
Cromwell	13	154 9 0	1	2 6 7	2 6 7
Dunedin	590	11,263 5 8	279	4,600 3 7	4,360 18 3
Gore ..	52	963 6 9	29	531 16 7	516 5 7
Hampden	..	..	..	..	..
Invercargill	314	6,322 19 8	151	2,533 3 10	2,157 4 4
Kaitangata	9	87 0 10	11	114 5 10	112 10 10
Kurow	19	247 17 6	15	224 9 2	224 9 2
Lawrence	18	153 17 9	4	33 1 7	25 11 7
Lumsden	7	60 9 11	7	322 6 4	166 6 4
Macrae’s	..	..	..	..	..
Mataura	28	255 17 9	22	323 3 6	323 3 6
Middlemarch	7	49 11 3	6	28 10 4	17 17 0
Milton	12	469 19 0	13	521 15 7	412 17 0
Mosgiel	5	58 16 11	..	..	..
Naseby	4	37 11 6	3	36 7 0	27 19 6
Oamaru	71	651 11 9	28	184 18 7	167 18 7
Orepuki	13	121 12 9	10	83 3 3	83 3 3
Otatau	13	93 15 4	25	619 13 11	458 8 11
Outram	1	25 18 9	1	2 5 10	2 5 10
Owaka..	4	20 9 0	..	..	..
Palmerston	5	59 6 8	7	67 19 8	57 19 8
Port Chalmers	7	18 6 5	3	158 3 7	158 3 7
Queenstown	1	5 16 6	..	..	..
Riverton	28	82 8 10	11	36 6 10	33 1 4
Roxburgh	14	214 9 4	10	78 11 9	54 17 3
St. Bathans	..	..	..	..	..
Stewart Island	..	..	..	..	..
Tapanui	7	118 5 7	7	118 5 7	118 5 7
Waikaia	4	116 9 9	..	..	..
Waikouaiti	12	107 8 8	12	103 1 0	61 12 8
Winton	8	144 1 0	8	144 1 0	144 1 1
Wyndham	7	141 15 1	7	187 16 1	110 6 10
Totals	13,064	239,715 10 0	7,894	141,644 4 11	121,321 3 9

TABLE showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1921, 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 ..	11,588	217,348 8 6	6,953	126,422 5 11	107,638 16 2
„ ..	Maori ..	1,396	20,198 16 0	892	13,873 11 1	12,858 1 5
Maori ..	European ..	15	365 12 9	5	225 2 0	170 16 0
„ ..	Maori ..	65	1,802 12 9	44	1,123 5 11	653 10 2
	Totals ..	13,064	239,715 10 0	7,894	141,644 4 11	121,321 3 9