New Zealand Gazette – 1922 – No. 21

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✨ Magistrates' Courts Civil Cases Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.—CIVIL CASES.

TABLE showing the NUMBER of CIVIL CASES HEARD, &c., in the several Magistrates’ Courts—
continued.

Courts.	Plaints entered.		Cases tried and disposed of during Year. (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	45	796 15 1	52	687 6 6	683 17 6
Kaiapoi	50	1,260 19 9	37	1,005 18 6	530 17 3
Leeston	24	372 9 2	15	141 6 2	138 16 2
Little River	53	348 4 3	37	322 12 7	277 16 4
Lyttelton	88	1,955 3 8	48	700 5 2	684 0 3
Methven	63	1,241 2 11	68	1,263 8 2	1,007 1 5
Oxford	17	275 12 6	15	261 14 10	247 18 9
Rangiora	162	3,109 10 2	98	1,786 3 1	1,187 3 11
Southbridge	11	225 0 2	5	149 7 0	149 7 0
South Rakaia	16	249 17 1	13	288 14 9	185 4 10
Temuka	134	1,489 4 0	101	982 8 8	849 16 8
Timaru	614	10,593 13 5	414	6,745 16 0	5,823 8 10
Waimate	308	4,948 8 6	152	2,233 2 5	2,174 4 7
Otago Provincial District.
Alexandra	36	543 17 10	22	313 16 4	283 1 4
Arrowtown	12	148 3 3	10	121 9 1	101 3 1
Balclutha	177	3,253 7 8	122	2,479 19 10	1,942 14 9
Black’s	14	254 9 0	14	323 15 7	289 9 5
Bluff	42	373 18 4	31	261 3 6	261 3 3
Clinton	13	102 10 2	6	44 11 4	16 10 3
Clyde	25	139 16 0	19	113 11 5	107 11 5
Cromwell	38	554 6 8	27	402 3 8	339 0 6
Dunedin	2,863	47,571 0 3	1,441	23,081 12 3	21,857 14 7
Gore	386	6,384 1 0	246	4,018 8 1	3,691 9 1
Hampden	5	39 0 1	6	61 7 8	36 17 1
Invercargill	1,398	27,470 17 1	732	15,915 2 5	14,053 19 0
Kaitangata	36	372 3 5	28	350 13 6	244 7 0
Kurow	36	557 1 2	34	348 9 6	348 9 6
Lawrence	50	457 5 0	21	180 7 2	116 4 6
Lumsden	25	799 5 7	20	741 6 0	490 19 1
Mataura	105	1,430 18 6	126	1,831 0 7	1,514 5 2
Middlemarch	19	319 6 1	18	318 15 11	308 2 7
Milton	45	1,074 18 8	42	1,188 4 9	767 13 8
Mosgiel	31	355 5 4	15	201 19 1	154 5 3
Naseby	31	441 11 2	21	321 16 3	218 16 3
Oamaru	326	4,239 5 9	202	2,612 15 4	1,809 16 5
Orepuki	92	1,349 19 0	73	913 13 11	911 17 5
Otatatau	129	1,709 2 2	104	1,637 5 2	1,365 3 5
Outram	22	348 2 4	11	141 14 9	141 14 9
Owaka	28	272 6 4	15	142 7 4	93 7 4
Palmerston	16	215 10 6	17	218 3 6	175 3 6
Port Chalmers	35	237 4 7	22	320 12 4	241 19 3
Queenstown	24	370 17 11	19	237 15 11	220 0 0
Riverton	122	1,449 8 9	75	1,093 9 3	996 11 6
Roxburgh	69	884 14 8	42	533 16 10	462 12 2
St. Bathans	2	46 18 6	1	6 18 6	3 0 0
Stewart Island	1	0 5 0	1	0 5 0	0 5 0
Tapanui	64	927 1 9	60	895 7 1	764 13 2
Waikai	10	245 10 4	6	126 3 3	12 15 6
Waikouaiti	24	157 7 5	23	154 17 3	104 3 11
Winton	75	1,001 19 0	52	840 7 9	512 7 1
Wyndham	97	1,487 6 10	68	1,295 15 9	982 16 1
Totals	59,339	1,169,286 4 8	39,013	762,605 2 1	654,863 1 6

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.—SUMMARY OF CIVIL CASES.

TABLE showing SUMMARY of CIVIL CASES HEARD during the Year 1921, according to Race of
Plaintiff and Defendant.

Plaintiff.	Defendant.	Plaints entered.		Cases tried and disposed of during Year.
		Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Number.	Total Amount sued for.	Total Amount recovered.
			£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
European	European	53,801	1,076,067 12 1	34,588	685,479 19 11	585,183 15 11
"	Maori	5,233	84,480 13 11	4,208	71,008 3 4	65,505 13 3
Maori	European	105	2,605 13 0	50	1,468 6 7	884 13 7
"	Maori	200	6,132 5 8	167	4,648 12 3	3,288 18 9
	Totals	59,339	1,169,286 4 8	39,013	762,605 2 1	654,863 1 6