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If you have a current application in the MāoriLand Court that is being delayed by a dispute, you can ask for your application to be put on hold while you attempt to settle the dispute outside of court.
The MāoriLand Court is notifying all owners of the above block about the following hui:
Whenua: Puna-O-Maru Section 96
Date: Saturday 27 September 2025
Time: 12:30 PM
Venue: Waihoa Marae 26 Māori Road Morven Waimate
Kaupapa:
Vote on setting aside the whenua as a Māori reservation
Vote on who the class of beneficiaries will be
Election of trustees
Discuss access to the urupā
Any questions please contact mlctewaipounamu@justice.gov...
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Applying for succession
Succession application types
Succession and whāngai
Succession with no living descendants
Succession with a living husband, wife, or partner Māori freehold land can be owned by one owner or several owners and in some cases, there might be hundreds of owners in one block or title of land.
Following an urgent MāoriLand Court hearing held on Wednesday, 2 August 2023, the Court has directed that the five separate hui scheduled on Saturday, 5 August 2023 for the following Māori Reservations is CANCELLED:
Whakapoungakau No.7A Māori Reservation;
Whakapoungakau No.7B 2 Māori Reservation;
Whakapoungakau No.7C Māori Reservation;
Whakapoungakau No.7F Māori Reservation; and
Whakapoungakau No.7G Māori Reservatio...
Trusts can be 'interest based' or 'land based'. Interest based trusts hold interests (or shares in Māoriland blocks, while ‘land based’ trusts may manage a Māoriland block or blocks on behalf of landowners.
Chief Judge Fox was appointed as a MāoriLand Court judge on 1 October 2000, and shortly thereafter was appointed as the Presiding Officer of the Waitangi Tribunal’s Central North Island district inquiry in 2001.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP6 12:00 PM AP-20240000008296 21/94
Florence Pataura,
Maria Morehu
Lot 73 on Deposited Plan South
Auckland 12698 Māori Reservation –
Inquiry into the administration of a
Māori Reservation
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP5 14:45 PM AP-20250000011070 328/93 Raana Tuuta He ōta whakanoho mō Raana
Tuuta ki runga ia Kekerione 37
ABC 2
Occupation order for Raana Tuuta
on Kekerione 37 ABC 2
SP6 15:00 PM AP-20250000011058 133/93 Pamela
Seymour
He panonitanga ki te tūnga taitara
o Otonga 1E2 mai i te whenua atu
o te whenua Māori ki te whenua
Māori
Change the status of Otonga 1E2
from General land to Māori freehold
land...
