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Only roughly five percent of Aotearoa is now Māori land. Most Māori land is rural and much of it is remote.

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Metadata Title: National List of Māori Land in New Zealand Date of data: 30 June 2024 Published by: Office of the Chief Registrar, Māori Land Court, Ministry of Justice, Wellington Email: te.tiratu@justice.govt.nz URL: Māori land data | Māori Land Court (xn--morilandcourt-wqb.govt.nz) Release Notes: The information contained in this spreadsheet is a snapshot of data from the Māori Land...

Documents/Maori-Land-Data/MLC-2024-06-30-National-List-Maori-Land-in-New-Zealand.xlsx (2 mb)

For a full explanation, please refer to either the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 | Māori Land Act 1993 or the Māori Land Court Rules 2011 SECTION DESCRIPTION 4/55 Governor-General in council may declare land to be a Māori reserve 6/1983 Determine succession to Titi Islands lands (order) 12/75 Determination of ownership of taonga tūturu found 18(1)(a)/93 Exercise general jurisdiction of court 19/...

Documents/Panui/MLC-National-Panui-April-2025.pdf (2.2 mb)

Only applications and sittings that were confirmed at the time of this publication are listed. For more information, please contact your local Mäori Land Court office.

Documents/Panui/0903423-Ministry-of-Justice_Panui-October-2023-CONFIRMED-FOR-WEBSITE.pdf (615 kb)

Only applications and sittings that were confirmed at the time of this publication are listed. For more information, please contact your local Mäori Land Court office.

Documents/Panui/Panui-April-2023.pdf (798 kb)

Waiariki kaimahi celebrating the appointment of Judge Coxhead as Deputy Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court.

Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2023-Matariki-2024.pdf (11 mb)

Former Chief Māori Land Court Judge, who then became a Justice of the High Court, ET Durie provided the following analyses of the nature of Māori rights to land; Maori see themselves not as masters of the environment but as members of it.

Documents/Judges-corner-articles/JWI-ACPECT-Presentation-2022.pdf (540 kb)

He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai A Special Sitting At Dunedin | Ministry of Justice, District Court, 21 Dunbar Street, Dunedin Thursday, 25 July 2024 Judge S Te A Milroy Presiding PĀNUI NO.

Documents/Panui/1.-Te-Waipounamu-Special-25-July-2024.pdf (119 kb)

In 2017, an application was made to the Māori Land Court to determine the status of the land, the ownership of the land and the relative interests of the owners.

Documents/Judges-corner-articles/Aorere-Accretion-determination-of-status-and-ownership-of-land.pdf (890 kb)

SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP1 10:00 AM A20120012542 12/75 Chief Executive of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Determination of ownership of ngā taonga tūturu found at Ruby Bay Beach, Tasman, Nelson and others SP2 10:00 AM A20160001089 12/75 Chief Executive of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Determination of ownership of taonga tūturu (Waka) found at Anaweka Estuary SP3 10:00 AM A20120011751 11/75 12/75 C...

Documents/Panui/1.-Te-Waipounamu-Special-30-September-2024.pdf (143 kb)