MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 October 1925, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

QUARTERLY RETURNS

DECREASE IN BUSINESS

A, reduction in police cases from 135 to 96 is shown in the quarterly return of business at the Hawera Magistrate s Court for the period ended September 30, 1925, as against the figures for the corresponding quarter of last year. This is explained that owing to the fact that speeding motorists are more difficult to detect on account of the new registration numbers, hence less prosecutions have followed. In the police business twenty-three arrests , were made, one being a female. Sixty-nine males and four females were dealt with on summonses, making .a total number of police cases at 91 males and 5 females. In the 1924 quarter 126 males and nine females were dealt with. . The civil figures are as follows, those for the 1924 quarter being given in parenthesis. Summonses numbering 290 (361) and to. the value of £3,876 4s lOd (£520 Is 4d) were issued. Formerly cases, where the amount claimed was paid into the court and accepted in discharge of the debt, and also cases where judgment was given by default, by confession or. by consent, were classed as cases tried, but now only cases on which a hearing fee has been paid, and which were actually fought out in court are considered under this category. During the last qua iter there were five defended cases with claims Itotalling £262 14s 3d, of these the amount recovered was £Bl 10s. Eight (nine) applications were heard in court; six (14) distress warrants were issued; 77 .(64) judgment summonses issued; seven (10) warrants of committal; 228 (281) summonses and other processes were served by the bailiff, ;and 11 (16) warrants were executed by the bailiff. "The fees and fines paid totalled £474 12s. (£551 10s 8d) and were made up as follows: —Oivil cases, £341 19 s 6d (£365 7s) ; fees in police cases, £l9 19s (£23 12s); fines paid, £llO 3s 8d (£l5O 11s 8d) ; licensing fees, £2 10s (£-)■