SUPREME AND MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3579, 9 April 1927, Page 11

SUPREME AND MAGISTRATE’S COURT

QUARTERLY RETURNS. A comparison of the quarterly returns of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North for the. quarter ended March 31, with those of the corresponding quarter last year (figures given in parenthesis) shows that true bills presented were 3 (nil)', and person's convicted 1 (nil). In divorce 8 (6) dissolutions of marriage were granted, decrees nisi sealed 3 (1), decrees nisi absolute sealed 3 U). :■. Probates and letters of administration sealed or resealed were 39 (37); securities' filed were 171 (135), and satisfactions filed were 26 (39). In bankruptcy debtors’ petitions-filed were 16 (15), creditors’ petitions-filed were 2 (2), while discharges granted were-5 (4). -- if '■■ ■ -• In regard to sales by mortgages through the registrar; applications tc conduct sales were 14 (13); -and. the number of sales held were, 4 (17). Fees collected totalled '£'642 7s 6d (£517 -i-ls'rfdjr?* CivlL ' ■ • Civil actions -commenced -were St. the amount claimed in Court £485867; and the amount recovered £6538 2s lid. For the same quarter.in 1926 the amount claimed: was £15,820. Is 2d and the' amount recovered: *£3s-68 Is sd. .. v:;': * ■ ; Magistrate’s Court. - Civil business done Iri'- the Magistrate’s 'Cbtii-t shows ■ thECt' the total amount sued for' was £9079 13s lOd (£8724 19s 4d in 1926). The number of plaints entered were 524 (690), the number of -distress; war rants -issued; "48 (40),-Mho number of judgment summonses issued ISO (146), themuinbeif of warrants of committal issUed ■ 24 (28), and the number of summonses and other processes served by the bai-liffs-70 (53).- ‘ In criminal cases . the- charges against males totalled 227“ (353); against females 16 (10), making a total of 243 (363). Fees and fines were £844,17s (£IOB7 12s, 6d).- :v„ Pensions,granted were 26, (45), refused 3 (4) ( , pending 3 (1), and renewals nil (207).