The working list of potential owners was updated at a sitting of the Māori Land Court in Te
Waipounamu on 9 September 2021. Further successions will be ongoing.
This working list is comprised of successors to the 50 original beneficiaries who were
allocated land between Lakes Hāwea and Wānaka (‘The Neck’) under the ‘SILNA’ scheme.
The South Island Landless Natives Act 1906 was repealed in 1909 without those 50 people
having received their SILNA land.
He mea āhukahuka Te Rautaki Reo o Te Kooti
Whenua Māori i te hōhonu me te iho tāroa o
te whanaungatanga i waenga i te reo Māori, te
tāngata whenua, me te whenua anō, he tohu i te
tino hiranga o te oranga me te whakamarumaru-
tanga o te reo Māori.
Ko te tikanga o tēnei
wāhanga o te ture, he whakamana i te Kooti
Whenua Māori hei kaiwhakahaere mō ngā
whenua o ngā kaipupuri Māori, e āhei ai te
whakapaipai, te hiki ake i te wāriu, me te
whakahou ake i te taitara, mō te painga o
te katoa.
