For further clarification please contact: Office: Level 7, Fujitsu Tower, 141 The Terrace, Wellington, DX Box SX 11203, WELLINGTON PH: (04) 914 3102 Fax: (04) 914 3100 Office of the Chief Registrar PĀNUI 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 Chief Judge applications To be heard via Zoom Thursday 28 September 2023 Chief Judge C L Fox PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICA...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP1 10:45 AM AP-20250000014097 29/93 113/93 455/1998 Marguertta Speck Henrietta Stewart - Succession to Toitoi Block (Crown Land Block VIII Lords River Survey District) – South Island Landless Natives (SILNA) Block SP2 10:45 AM AP-20250000013182 29/93 113/93 455/1998 Lynda James Ellen Isabella Hamilton - Succession to Toitoi Block (Crown Land Block VIII Lords River Survey District) –...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP57 2:00 PM AP-20230000035726 67/93 Peter-Barry Smith, Launa-Anne Smith, Whetu-Iti Doreen Silver, Vance Samuel Smith, Terrence Twigg Smith, Rick Riccardo Smith Pupuke M Lot 1 DP 81424 (Nuki o te Hapu Tahawai ki Rataroa Whanau Trust) - Injunction against any person in respect of any actual threatened trespass or other injury to any Māori land or Māori Reservation (Respondents: Bryce Peda Smith, Fulton Hogan Limited, Russe...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP 4 2.00 PM AP-20250000009124 58/93 Peter Batten Appeal 2025/18 - Mangamuka West No. 3 D D No. 2 block and a Chief Judge’s decision made at 2025 Chief Judge’s MB 1082-1125 on 11/6/2025 - Notice of Appeal (Respondents: Kathy Nio-Aporo and Stewart Otene) mailto:mlc.chief-registrars.office@justice.govt.nz
Documents/Panui/4.-Appeal-Whangarei-12-November-2025.pdf (123 kb)
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP 9 10:00 AM AP-20250000009124 58/93 Peter Batten and Christopher Maxwell Batten Appeal 2025/18 - Mangamuka West No. 3 D D No. 2 block and a Chief Judge’s decision made at 2025 Chief Judge’s MB 1082-1125 on 11/6/2025 - Notice of Appeal (Respondents: Kathy Nio-Aporo and Stewart Otene)
The below tables provide a snapshot of information relating to the Māori Land Court caseload from June 2022 to May 2023.
Documents/Articles/Te-Kooti-Whenua-Maori-Purongo-a-tau-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
This model for the utilisation of multiply-owned Māori land had its origins in Taitokerau in 1989 where, under s 438 of the Māori Affairs Act 1953, a block was vested in a trust with exclusive use areas identified in a schedule to the trust order for whānau shareholding groups.
Other status types As this update is specifically for Māori Customary Land and Māori Freehold Land it excludes the following land status types that fall within the jurisdiction of the Māori Land Court: Crown Land Crown Land Reserved for Māori General Land (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust) General Land Owned by Māori (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust); Ownership Only (own...
Documents/Maori-Land-Updates/Maori-Land-Update-2014.pdf (572 kb)
Other status types As this update is specifically for Māori Customary Land and Māori Freehold Land it excludes the following land status types that fall within the jurisdiction of the Māori Land Court: Crown Land Crown Land Reserved for Māori General Land (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust) General Land Owned by Māori (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust); Ownership Only (own...
Documents/Maori-Land-Data/Maori-Land-Update-2014.pdf (572 kb)
We get a small amount of dividend payments each year and a tax return has to be prepared. Our trust order requires the trust to be reviewed every five years by the Māori Land Court.
