Duration: 1.5 - 2 hours
⋅ Presentation: 45 minutes – 1 hour
⋅ Break: 15 minutes
⋅ Q & A: 15 – 20 minutes
Bring your own device (BYOD) laptop
or tablet – Wifi is available
There is no onsite parking available
He mihi ki Te Puni Kōkiri nō rātou te whare
mō te kaupapa nei.
If you think that you have been
adversely affected by this process and wish to make representations on the application, you must notify the
Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1 September 2022 and specify brief details of your concerns.
On 21 and 23 September 1887, on the application of representatives of
Ngāti Tūwharetoa, the Native Land Court partitioned the Tongariro No
1 Block into Tongariro 1A, 1B and 1C, Ruapehu 1 into Ruapehu 1A and 1B,
and Ruapehu 2 into Ruapehu 2 into Ruapehu 2A and 2B.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make submissions or
provide evidence concerning the application, you must notify the Registrar in writing by 4 pm on
Thursday, 1 June 2023 providing your name and address, telephone number, and email address (if
any), and setting out your connection to the application and brief details of your concerns.
I now turn to consider in detail the five propositions and the various
recommendations made in the Panel’s report.
Proposition 1: Utilisation of Māori land should be able to be determined by a
majority of engaged owners
The difficulty with proposition 1 is its underlying premise that there are significant
impediments in the Act to the engaged owners utilising their land, and that a remedy
is therefore needed.