MORE MONEY IN FINES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21988, 12 January 1937, Page 14

MORE MONEY IN FINES

* iyH; MAGISTRATE’S RETURNS ‘ B many MOKE CRIMINAL cash.- P Much more; money was paid-in H and many more criminal cases wiSv Si tried in the Magistrate’s Court;*!* m Christchurch during the • last is of last year than during the s -'c«rS' ii ponding quarter of the previous’ vS? The returns which were released jS H terday show that 1600 criminal - case. Si were tried by magistrates || quarter, the number for the,-'i«S B quarter of 1935 being 1418. The fiaj.' m paid during the year were £99812* B 3d, compared with £694 9s 9d far twig corresponding period of the prppwtaa year. The number of cases i heard JaM the children’s court increased ftonujj B to 205. • B In the following civil statistics the B figures for the last quarter of-1833'aie if given in. parenthesis:—Sittings u II (32), plaints entered 1361 . (1714) i| amount sued for £15.747 15s id M (£23,415 6s 8d), applications inchaa- H hers 264 (268), warrants 108 (lid)" R judgment summonses 179 (278), tried 64 (62). fees £I3OB 14s 6d (£ieas 13s), licensing fees £3B 9s. (£g 10s). The amount claimed in cases set down for hearing during the qoar. ter and some of which were carried over from the previous quarter.W. £13,224 2s 7d (£13,687 4s sd), ol which £10,635 18s Id (£12,786 Is) was re. covered. The criminal statistics show that the number of court sittings during tin quarter was 113 (102); cases against males 1457 (1270); cases against females 143 (148); cases against males in the - children's court 19V (109); against females in the children’s court 8 .(13); fees £436 19s 6d (£397 ]4s6d)fines £998 12s 3d (£694 9s 9d); mala arrested 330 (336); females arrested 4t (37); summonses against males 104 (1379); summonses against females Hi (161). _________ .