If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make
representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day of April
2024, providing your name and address, telephone number, and email address, if any, and setting out your
connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
People who benefit from a reservation
People who benefit from the reservation are usually named
as members of a hapū5 or several hapū, or any group of
Māori.
The information you’ll
need is:
• all the deceased person’s names (including maiden name,
if applicable)
• the deceased person’s siblings’ names
• the deceased person’s parents’ names (including their
mother’s maiden name)
• the names of anyone from whom the deceased person
may have obtained interests
• the names of the lands in which the deceased person may
have had interests.
He became, as far as I know, the first
Māori to own a schooner and he traded under his wife’s name Erena. He traded as
Thomas [Freeman], that was his Pākehā name.”7 Tāmati Pirimona Marino’s generosity
and hospitality to surveyors and officials is often commented on.8 In 1857 with the
Collingwood goldrush he welcomed and fed hundreds of Māori miners.
People who benefit from a reservation
The people who benefit from the reservation
are usually named as members of a hapū 4
or several hapū, or they can be any group
of Māori.
You can find information on:
the current list of landowners of the block
when a person became a landowner, who they inherited whenua interests from and the type of land ownership they have
the previous landowners and line of succession, or whakapapa of the whenua.
Agreements made in the Ngāi Tahu Deed of Settlement were brought into law so that these lands could be transferred to the potential landowners. Under the Settlement, the Court is conducting an inquiry to determine the entitled successors.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to promote and facilitate the reten-
tion of Māori land in Māori hands, and to support
landowners to use, occupy, and develop their
whenua for the benefit of all landowners, their
whānau and hapū.