HĀWEA/WĀNAKA SILNA WORKING LIST OF POTENTIAL OWNERS AS AT 9 SEPTEMBER 2021
The Māori Land Court has released an updated working list of potential owners entitled to the
Hāwea/Wānaka Substitute Land (Section 2 of 5 Block XIV Lower Wanaka Survey District)
under Section 15 of the Ngāi Tahu Deed of Settlement 1997.
A similar undertaking was conveyed in article 3 of the Māori text,
which provides that the Crown will care for Māori and give to Māori the same rights and duties of
citizenship as the people of England.7 Article 3 has been understood as a guarantee of equity between
Māori and other New Zealanders.8
With respect to articles 1 and 2 of te Tiriti, the Waitangi Tribunal has also observed:9
The guarantee of tino rangatiratanga requires the Crown to acknowledge Māori c...
Accordingly, the report’s recommendation is simply unnecessary and of very limited
application.
Proposition 3: Māori land should have effective, fit for purpose governance
The report makes two recommendations in relation to proposition 3.
The Hawke’s Bay Commission
was a bicultural body and comprised four
commissioners, two Māori (Wiremu Hikairo,
of Rotorua, and Major Te Wheoro, from the
Waikato) and two Pākehā (C W Richmond and
F E Maning). Richmond, a High Court judge,
was the chairman.
You
do not need to file separate applications for
each district.
1 The official record of legal ownership of
property and the legal evidence of a person’s
ownership rights.
2 A person who receives, as of right, a share of
a deceased person’s estate.
3 Someone who is given authority by the
High Court to manage and administer the
estate of a deceased person.
Kei ngā tari katoa o te Kooti
Whenua Māori ngā pepa tono.
1 Te rangatiratanga, te mana pupuri whenua
tūturu me ngā pepa e whakaatu ana i taua
mana i raro i te ture.
2 He tangata e tika ana i raro i te ture kia
whiwhi ki ngā hea o te tangata kua mate.
3 He tangata kua tohua, kua whai mana mai
i te Kooti Teitei ki te whakahaere me te
tohatoha i ngā rawa a te tangata kua mate,
ina tohua e te Kooti Teitei he kaitohatoha,
ka tukua e te kooti he momo reta
kaiwhakahae...