New Zealand Gazette – 1921 – No. 78

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✨ Magistrates' Courts 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	21	816 15 10	21	277 19 0	268 15 0
Methven	5	68 0 2	4	64 1 5	37 0 0
Oxford..	2	23 13 1	2	23 13 1	23 13 1
Rangiora	44	1,400 0 3	31	422 17 4	334 16 3
Southbridge	..	..	..	..	..
South Rakaia	5	122 4 9	2	20 4 9	5 0 0
Temuka	20	144 0 1	19	279 10 1	279 10 1
Timaru	190	3,525 0 5	129	2,391 15 5	1,874 10 4
Waimate	76	829 2 9	50	384 10 6	384 10 6
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	5	98 5 2	4	82 17 0	82 17 0
Arrowtown	4	54 14 6	3	26 0 3	26 0 3
Balclutha	47	572 9 8	26	526 1 6	483 4 9
Black’s*	..	..	..	..	..
Bluff ..	9	81 3 3	10	70 13 2	70 13 2
Clinton	3	18 6 10	6	44 11 4	16 10 3
Clyde ..	11	63 4 2	8	48 13 8	48 13 8
Cromwell	4	49 2 9	9	168 4 0	110 7 6
Dunedin	801	13,423 11 5	404	6,668 18 0	6,262 10 9
Gore ..	104	2,013 16 0	59	1,156 6 4	1,001 6 4
Hampden	1	5 0 0	..	..	..
Invercargill	333	8,681 12 1	188	6,395 9 3	5,704 15 11
Kaitangata	9	142 17 10	2	96 3 6	35 4 6
Kurow..	5	71 13 2	8	17 12 4	17 12 4
Lawrence	15	81 18 8	7	49 5 4	48 13 4
Lumsden	4	67 3 5	3	36 16 7	36 16 7
Macrae’s	..	..	..	..	..
Mataura	43	550 10 2	60	485 2 4	485 2 4
Middlemarch	4	107 1 0	4	127 11 9	127 11 9
Milton	15	83 13 4	11	96 4 2	73 9 7
Mosgiel	5	119 18 11	6	99 9 7	97 9 7
Naseby	12	202 16 0	6	118 2 6	27 0 0
Oamaru	102	1,661 5 4	64	869 15 2	801 15 3
Orepuki	16	133 9 1	12	109 6 8	107 10 2
Otatau	25	413 19 7	11	132 17 7	90 9 10
Outram	4	96 7 0	3	92 12 0	92 12 0
Owaka	9	142 0 1	5	86 8 1	46 8 1
Palmerston	5	96 0 0	4	90 0 0	90 0 0
Port Chalmers	16	151 18 6	6	18 17 9	16 18 11
Queenstown	2	50 10 5	2	16 6 6	16 6 6
Riverton	30	338 1 11	12	176 12 10	168 16 7
Roxburgh	16	265 5 11	12	168 4 9	168 4 9
St. Bathan’s	2	46 18 6	..	..	..
Stewart Island	..	..	..	..	..
Tapanui	24	370 3 7	24	370 3 7	370 3 7
Waikai	4	119 14 1	4	116 16 9	3 9 0
Waikouaiti	4	16 1 5	3	12 6 5	12 6 5
Winton	15	260 15 11	11	256 18 0	252 17 6
Wyndham	26	452 8 2	16	314 15 4	164 3 1
Totals	15,690	327,300 19 6	10,519	215,071 11 7	185,898 15 11

Returns not to hand.

TABLE showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Quarter ended 30th June, 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	14,367	304,651 10 3	9,329	193,805 19 4	166,580 4 4
,,	Maori	1,268	20,268 13 0	1,147	20,115 18 3	18,579 10 7
Maori ..	European	27	768 16 5	7	184 19 0	130 1 0
,,	Maori	28	1,611 15 10	36	964 15 0	609 0 0
	Totals	15,690	327,300 15 6	10,519	215,071 11 7	185,898 15 11