COURT RETURNS.
BUSINESS FOR QUARTER. Returns of the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North for the quarter ended June 30 are as follow, the figures for the corresponding quarter of 19oG being given in parentheses: Total criminal sittings. 59 (46); total civil sittings. 18 (10); sittings presided over by the Magistrate, 59 (44); number of civil cases heard 27 (1(), number of plaints entered, 398 (lib. amount sued for. £61 1 2 18s 3d (£3(31 13s sd); implications in Court or Chambers. 72 (70); civil warrants issued, 22 (42); summonses and o'her processes served bv bailiffs 349 (2®, ); judgment summonses issued (80): foreign processes served. 177 (Dm): civ'l summonses served by rog'stered letter 45 (631 • total criminal oases. 386 (339); Children’s Court eases, 47 (40):' fcrn-H? ceived £877 2s 6d (£640 18s). Similar comparative returns for business dealt with in the Supreme Court during the same quarter are as fo’low:— . .
Divorce petitions, 18 (8); decrees nisi granted 15 (11); decrees absolute <rrantcrl. 9 (101 • probates and letters of administration sealed. 0? (34); chattel securities filed. 201 (206): satisfactions filed 35 (45); bapkruptev rbseb.cruos, 0 (8); foes received, £o(9 Us (£668 7»).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 6 July 1937, Page 2
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