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E kore hoki e āheitia te whakatū tiaki
whenua kia herea te taonga, te whenua
rānei ki tētahi tono i raro i te ture ‘Protection
of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988’.
Tikanga tuku
Ka haere tonu te tikanga tuku.
Ka tuhia te tono ki roto ki ngā rīkoata o te
kooti mēnā e pā ana ki te whenua, ā, ka
tonoa ki te tangata, ki te rōpū rānei kia
mahia ngā mahi o te tono, pēnei i te kaitiaki
rawa o te Māori, arā Māori trustee, kia
utua ngā moni kei te puritia e ia, ā, me te
kaporeihana Māori mēnā e pā atu ana ki ngā
hea o te kaporeihana.
Ko te nuinga o ngā tāpaetanga
moni ka whakatauhia kia mutu mēnā ka moe
anō te pouaru.
19 Te whakapapa, kāwai heke, e hono ai taua
tangata ki te whānau, tipuna rānei.
20 He kaitiaki – trustee or guardian.
21 He tamaiti whāngai Māori, ānō nei he
tamaiti whānau tonu, engari kāore i
whakamanahia te whāngai i rō kooti.
22 Ko ngā kaiwhiwhi rawa mai i te trust.
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Hei whakarāpopoto, ko ngā whenua Māori
me ngā hea kaporeihana Māori, ka āhei
anake te waiho ki:
• Ngā tamariki...
Following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the Crown negotiated several largescale purchases of land in Te Waipounamu (the South Island) whereby almost the entire land base of Ngāi Tahu, some 34.5 million acres of land, was sold for £14,750. 1 Ngāi Tahu’s landlessness was the subject of several Crown investigations in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.
Prior to its integration into the Department for Courts
and Ministry of Justice, the Māori Land Court was
part of a section within the Department of Māori
Affairs (often referred to as the court section).