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.
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
At the end of the hearing the Judge may do
one of several things:
• make the order you were seeking
• adjourn the hearing to another date,
and possibly another venue, if more
information or evidence is needed
• “reserve” the decision (ie put the
matter aside to be considered further
by the Judge and for a written decision
to be issued at a later date)
• dismiss the application if the Judge is
not prepared to make the order you
were seeking.
1 A claim or liability attache...
Ā te mutunga o te keehi, koia nei ngā
āhuatanga e āhei ana te kaiwhakawā:
• ka whakaae ia ki te tuku tono mai i te
Kooti ki tāu e hiahiatia nei
• te hiki i te keehi mō tōna wā, kia rangona
anō i tētahi atu wā, ki tētahi wāhi rānei,
mēnā e hiahiatia ana ētahi kōrero
whakamārama, kōrero tautoko rānei
• te whakatārewa i te whakatau (arā te
waiho i te take ki te taha kia whakaarohia
anōtia e te kaiwhakawā, me te tuku ā tuhi
i te whakatau i muri iho)
1 He kerēme, he herenga ki te w...
Ka
taea e ngā rōpū tikanga kaitiaki pēnei me
ngā rōpū kaitiaki tikanga ā whānau, ngā rōpū
kaitiaki pūtea 2 me ngā rōpū kaitiaki 3 anō, te
mahi ki raro i te marara o te kaporeihana Māori.
Ngā kaitiaki, me ngā kaitiaki whenua
Ko te kaitiaki 1 he tangata ka pīkau i ngā
kawenga ā-ture ki te tiaki i ngā taputapu o
ētahi atu tāngata hei painga hoki mō aua
tāngata rā.
The information
in this booklet does not apply to Māori reserves.
2
Māori reservation land
Any Māori freehold land or any general land 1
may be set aside as a Māori reservation.
On 21 and 23 September 1887, on the application of representatives of
Ngāti Tūwharetoa, the Native Land Court partitioned the Tongariro No
1 Block into Tongariro 1A, 1B and 1C, Ruapehu 1 into Ruapehu 1A and 1B,
and Ruapehu 2 into Ruapehu 2 into Ruapehu 2A and 2B.
XII (formerly Manawatu Kukutauaki 7D1 Sec 12) Tangimate Lake Maori Freehold Land 2.0234 1 505162
AOT 19540 Te Horehore Te Horehore being Part Sec 1 SO 37156 Maori Freehold Land 464.1524 1 WN52D/544
AOT 19545 Tuwhakatupua 2E Maori Freehold Land 2.4281 1 503831
AOT 19618 Tahamata 3D Incorporation Maori Freehold Land 31.6287 1 WN428/215
AOT 19677 Sections 57, 58, 70, 72 and 100 of the Ratana Pa Ratana Pa Reserves Secs 57, 58, 70, 72 & 100 Maori Freehold Land...
Contents:
Applications for hearing in JUNE | PIPIRI 2023:
(Please note that these in person hearings may be substituted for remote hearing by
Zoom depending on operating Covid-19 protocols)
2 - 9 Aotea District
10 - 14 Tairäwhiti District
15 - 23 Taitokerau District
24 - 26 Takitimu District
27 - 30 Te Waipounamu District
31 - 46 Waiariki District
47 - 56 Waikato Maniapoto District
57 Appendix
59 - 73 Applications that remain outstanding in the Office of the Chief Registrar...
