Accessing Pātaka Whenua
Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Become a registered
Pātaka Whenua user
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 16 December 2024
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Step 1
Once you have the Pātaka Whenua portal open, click “Register” or “Create account”.
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 Hamilton
Māori Land Court, Level 2, BNZ Centre, 354-358 Victoria Street, Hamilton
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Judge R P Mullins Presiding
Join Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 891 0817 9381| Passcode: 851252
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TAITOKERAU
PĀNUI
Contact Details
Office Te Taitokerau
Address 16 Rathbone Street
Mailing address DX Box AX10086, Whangārei
Phone 09 948 9940
Email mlctaitokerau@justice.govt.nz
Office hours Monday to Friday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
(Closed on Public Holidays)
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 Judicial Conference
The following special sitt...
Accessing Pātaka Whenua
Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Submitting an enquiry
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 16 December 2024
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Step 1
Guest users: Get started by clicking “Submit an enquiry” on the Pātaka Whenua portal.
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SP 40 10:45AM AP-20230000019699
A20190006427
45/93 John Hoani Cribb CJ 2019/32 - Tiemi
Karepe, Te One Karepe,
Hara Karepe Crib and
Hoani Karepe and
succession orders made at
32 Tauranga MB 117-119
(30 May 1972) and 155
Rotorua MB 234 and 177
(30 November 1970)-
Application to the Chief
Judge
SP 41 11:00AM AP-20230000027476
A20200013412
45/93 Ashton Eugene
Tairua
CJ 2020/55 - Hemi Nai
Tairua or Hemi Tairua -
and a succession order
ma...
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Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Search for a block
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 19 November 2025
This guide covers two ways to search for a block in the Pātaka Whenua online portal:
• using the Search menu to find a block
• Near Match Search (page 1),
• Exact Match Search (page 4),
• locating it visually with the Block Map (page 7).
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Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Search for a
management structure
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 19 November 2025
You do not need to be a registered Pātaka Whenua user in order to search and access
management structure information.
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Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Search for an ownership
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 29 September 2025
You do not need to be a registered Pātaka Whenua user in order to search and access
ownership information.
The concept was not lost, however, on the Ministry of Māori Development who, following a workshop hui at Rawhiti on 02 March 1992, included whānau trusts in the Māori Affairs Bill which passed into law on 09 March 1993 as Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993, with effect from 01 July 1993. There have, of course, been numerous ahu whenua trust orders with composite whānau trust-administered areas created since Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 gave statutory recognition to shareholdings within block...