This guide covers two ways to search for an ownership in Pātaka Whenua online portal:
• Near Match Search (page 2),
• Exact Match Search (page 6).
Accessing Pātaka Whenua
Step 1
In your web browser, visit the Māori Land Court website www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz and click
the green tab in the top right area labelled“Pātaka Whenua – our online portal”.
Accessing Pātaka Whenua
Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 16 December 2024
Submitting an application
https://www.maorilandcourt.govt.nz/
https://www.maorilandcourt.govt.nz/
māorilandcourt.govt.nz 2
Step 1
Guest users: Get started by clicking “Submit an application” on the Pātaka Whenua portal.
Accessing Pātaka Whenua
Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Submitting an enquiry
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 16 December 2024
https://www.maorilandcourt.govt.nz/
māorilandcourt.govt.nz 2
Step 1
Guest users: Get started by clicking “Submit an enquiry” on the Pātaka Whenua portal.
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 Whanganui
Māori Land Court, Ingestre Chambers, 74 Ingestre Street, Whanganui
Join Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 879 6913 4540
Thursday 3 April 2025
Judge A H C Warren Presiding
PĀNUI
NO.
TIME APPLICATION NO.
TE KOOTI WHENUA MĀORI / MĀORI LAND COURT
Place: Gisborne
Present: C L Fox, Chief Judge
D Kennedy, Court Taker
Date: 5 August 2024
Application No: AP-20240000008262
Subject: RESCHEDULING OF GISBORNE COURT SITTING
Legislation: Rule 3.8(1)(b), Māori Land Court Rules 2011
The Court: I have considered the 2024 October Tairawhiti District Court sitting date for
Gisborne that has been gazetted by the Chief Registrar in accordance with the Schedule
publish...
TE KOOTI WHENUA MĀORI / MĀORI LAND COURT
Place: Rotorua
Present: C T Coxhead, Judge
D Witoko, Court Taker
Date: 26 March 2024
Pānui No: Chambers Application No: AP-20240000002787
Subject: RESCHEDULING OF WAIARIKI COURT SITTING DATES
Legislation: Rule 3.8(1)(b), Māori Land Court Rules 2011
The Court: I have considered the 2024 June and July Waiariki District court sitting dates
for Rotorua and Taupō that have been gazette by the Chief Registrar...
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 Gisborne
At Gisborne | Te Whare Ra Tu, 37 Gladstone…
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 1 10:00 AM AP-20230000028230
A20120012122
67/93,
289/93
Sadie Thomas
McGee, Wayne
Stewart Haigh
Mohinui Topu – Partition and Judicial
Conference
SP 2 10:00 AM AP-20230000028238
A20130010491
18(1)(a)/93 Elizabeth
Philippa Schultz
Mohinui Topu 2 – Determine
ownership of a house
SP 3 10:00 AM AP-20230000028359
A20200006100
289/93 Tangi Rudolph Mohinui Topu Blocks 5 and 9A –
Partition
SP 4 10:00 AM AP-20...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 1 10.30 AM
AP-20250000013877 19(1)(b)/93 David Albert
Mercer
Ongarahu B - Injunction against any
person in respect of any actual
threatened trespass or other injury to
any Māori land or Māori Reservation.