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Secondly, their refinements to this structure, after many meetings, has created a model which better represents the grassroots “ownership” of the block. 1) The standard structure is the same:
The ahu whenua trustees are the legal “owners” of the block in dealings with third parties and must ensure compliance with the district plan, payment of local body rates etc and are responsible for the block’s services, access etc.
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP19 11:15 AM AP-20250000004893 239/93 Fiona
Gabrielle
Murray
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Aotearoa Trust
Replace Graeme Menzies with
Andrea Davis as trustees of the
Aotearoa Trust
SP20 11:30 AM AP-20250000005039 164/93
158/93
Tania
Bernadette
Tuirirangi
Franklin
He whakawhitinga hea o Tania
Franklin mai i te poraka
whenua o Te Awaroa A 3B 2A
1C 2 hei koha ki a Teao Ogle
Transferring share...
The Māori Land Court is notifying all owners of the above block about the following meeting of
assembled owners:
Whenua: Otonga 3
DATE: Saturday 16 August
TIME: 2 pm Chatham Islands time (1:15pm New Zealand time)
VENUE: The Den, Norman Kirk Memorial Reserve, Chatham Islands
Kaupapa:
The Seymour whānau resolve to seek the full partition of the Otonga 3 block into 2 separate
titles, as represented on the sketch plan provided.
The Māori Land Court is notifying all owners of the above block about the following meeting of
assembled owners:
Whenua: Otonga 3
DATE: Saturday 16 August
TIME: 2 pm Chatham Islands time (1:15pm New Zealand time)
VENUE: The Den, Norman Kirk Memorial Reserve, Chatham Islands
Kaupapa:
The Seymour whānau resolve to seek the full partition of the Otonga 3 block into 2 separate
titles, as represented on the sketch plan provided.
The unengaged owners are not the problem the report imagines
For a significant number of blocks of multiply-owned Māori land today, the engaged
owners are a minority of the owners.
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP1 11:00 AM AP-20250000005701 338(5)/93,
338(12)/93,
338(14)(c)/93
Ohaki
Papakāinga
Māori
Reservation
trustees
Tahorakuri A No 1 Sec 1 (Ohaki
Papakainga) block and Ohaki
Papakainga Māori Reservation -
redefine the purpose for the Māori
reservation (ordered at 154
Rotorua MB 265-268 on 8 March
1971) to include papakāinga
• Any revenue from the lease or licence must be used as
directed by the MLC.
Section 150A of the Act (as amended by section 24 of
Te Ture Whenua Māori Amendment Act 2002) requires any
lease for longer than 52 years to have the consent of at least
half the beneficial owners of the land and the approval of the
MLC.
You can find "Total area of the block in hectares", "Total interests (shares) of the block", and Owners interests (shares) in the block" in Pātaka Whenua.
The below tables provide a snapshot of information relating to the Māori Land Court caseload
from June 2022 to May 2023.
Figure [1] – Inflight case numbers by month and processing step (June 2022 to May 2023*)
* Due to the transition to Pātaka Whenua, reporting data is only available for the period until 31 May 2023.
They cannot be finally appointed until a
gazette notice has been issued formally
establishing the Māori reservation.
1 In broad terms, land that is not Māori land
and is not Crown land (see next item).
2 The Crown refers to the Queen, who is
the head of state of New Zealand.
