NOTICE CONCERNING A LEASE OF MĀORI LAND Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993, Section 173 In the Māori Land Court of New Zealand Aotea District TAKE NOTICE that the Directors of St Georges By the Sea Limited (Directors being Dorothy Jane Newton, Edward Harold Brassey Newton and Linda Susan Newton) has made application to the Māori Land Court at Whanganui for a meeting of PARIHAKA NO 20 BLOCK seeking: 1.
Documents/Landowner-notices/2.-Aotea-Notice-to-owners.pdf (246 kb)
Chief Judge Fox was appointed as a Māori Land 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.
Our Courts The Māori Land Court operates over seven dis- tricts across Aotearoa, with district offices located from Whangārei in the north to Ōtautahi in the south.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2024-Matariki-2025.pdf (16 mb)
Our friends such as Te Kohanga Reo, Te Kura Kaupapa Māori, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, Te Whare Wānanga, Māori Television, the Māori iwi radio stations and the many more initiatives that seek to revitalize the Māori language are waiting for you.
HĀWEA/WĀNAKA SUBSTITUTE SILNA LAND WORKING LIST OF POTENTIAL OWNERS AS AT 23 MAY 2025 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 Wānaka Survey District) under Section 15 of the Ngāi Tahu Deed of Settlement 1997.
Documents/SILNA/Working-List-of-Potential-Owners-Hawea-Wanaka-SILNA-as-at-25-May-2025.pdf (1.1 mb)
Note that Māori reservations are different to Māori reserves.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
Māori reserves are lands administered by the Māori Trustee under the Māori Reserved Land Act 1955.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.4E-OCT21-Maori-Reservations.pdf (348 kb)
As a result, from time to time the Māori Land Court receives applications to extend existing urupā, or to set aside Māori freehold land, or sometimes General land owned by Māori, as new urupā reservations.
One of the great advantages of establishing a marae, papakāinga, meeting place, recreational or sports ground, or wāhi tapu as a Māori reservation is that while the land is a Māori reservation it cannot be alienated.
Following an urgent Māori Land 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
