COURT RETURNS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 108, 6 April 1934, Page 2

COURT RETURNS.

FIGURES FOR THE QUARTER, The returns issued by the Magistrate’s Court show that during the year ending March 31 74 criminal cases were heard locally as compared with 67 in the previous year, while during the same period 142 summonses had been issued. The latter figures showed a. decrease of 32 in comparison with 1932-33. Plaints entered numbered 318, and of a total of £2864 13s 9d sued for the sum of £2380 14s 9d was collected, whereas in the preceding twelve months the plaints numbered 390 and a total of £4716 17s 8d was involved £4237 16s 2d being collected. Other’comparative figures during the same periods are.—Sittings by Stipendiary Magistrate, 10 civil and 31 criminal (14 and 36) ; sittings by justices, two civil and 27 criminal (1 and 13). The Magistrate heard 13 civil cases (17), while the justices heard two (1). The amounts sued for aggregated £6792 4s 8d (£7198 12s 9d). Applications heard in Court or chambers, o 9 (75) ; number of distress warrants issued, 38 (18); judgment summonses issued, 56 (85); warrants for committal, 10 (10) ; summonses and other processes served, 350 (400); warrants executed by bailiff, 40 (78); civil summonses served by letter, 57 (35); foreign proST received, ’ 191 (236); cr.n.m.l 91 ft (241) ; civil fees paid amounted to £342 8a 6d(£436 16s); Cs paid, £468 (£97 10s); licensing fees paid, £3 7s (£' 14s).