During the holiday period, Māori Land Court offices will be closed from 3pm, Wednesday 24 December 2025 and will reopen 10am, Monday 5 January 2026.
A national service for only urgent injunction applications is available Monday 29, Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 December. More details can be found here.
Due to limited access to the building, the Auckland Information Office is available by appointment only. Please contact us by email at mlctamakimakaurau@justice.govt.nz
My marae are Muru Raupatu at Bell Block and Waikawa Marae near Picton. My tipuna were part of the diaspora of Taranaki Māori in the 19th century, finally settling on Aropaoa Island in Queen Charlotte Sound.
Updated interim list of owners of the Toitoi SILNA Block Crown Land Block VIII Lords
River Survey District (South Island Landless Natives Act 1906)
The Māori Land Court has released an updated working list of potential owners entitled to
the Toitoi Land (Crown Land Block VIII Lords River Survey District) under Section 15 of
Ngāi Tahu Deed of Settlement 1997.
S Overall, an average Māori land block has a size of 52.64 ha and 111 owners.
S The total number of allocated ownership records recorded in all blocks is 3,136.458.
If you or your whānau are on this list, please update your
contact details with us to receive communications regarding the block. If any of your
whanaunga are on the list and are deceased, we invite you to make a succession
application.
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.
I see the true survival of tino rangatiratanga, what else is on my island? I see the true survival of the Māori language and tikanga Māori, what else is on my island?
This year’s conference was attended by Chief Justices (or their representatives) from Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Russia, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
In 2011 he was appointed as a High Court Judge in Niue, in 2016 as a Justice of the High Court of the Cook Islands, and in 2018, as the Chief Justice of Niue.