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Metadata
Title: National List of Māori Land in New Zealand
Date of data: 30 June 2025
Published by: Office of the Chief Registrar, Māori Land Court, Ministry of Justice, Wellington
Email: te.tiratu@justice.govt.nz
URL: Māori land data | Māori Land Court (xn--morilandcourt-wqb.govt.nz)
Release Notes: The information contained in this spreadsheet is a snapshot of data from Pātaka Whenua of the Māori Land Court, New Zealand
This data forms part of the public permanent record of the C...
Use of this data should be read in conjunction with our standard disclaimer
Header descriptions: Data Value descriptions:
Headers Description Data Field Value Description
DISTRICT Māori Land Court District Abbreviation DISTRICT AOT Aotea District
BLOCKID Internal Māori Land Court identification number for land block TKT Tākitimu District
BLK_NAME Māori Land Court Block Description TTK Taitokerau District
ALT_BLOCK_NAME Alternative Māori Land Court Block Description TRW Tairāwhiti...
The MLC operates under the provisions of Te Ture Whenua
Māori Act 1993 (‘the Act’).
Trustees1 are bound by Te Ture Whenua Māori Act and the
Trusts Act 2019.
An obvious corollary to that proposition is, subject to the available resources and infrastructure of the trust to cater for such procedures. For example, one ahu whenuatrust has over 8,000 beneficial owners for an area of land less than 200 hectares with income of less than $10,000.00 per annum.
Use this form to create an Ahu WhenuaTrust (a land trust) by vesting one or more land blocks in trustees to
manage, as set out in a trust deed/order on behalf of the beneficial owner(s).
Trusts
(Note: The term trusts includes all types of management structure, including Ahu WhenuaTrusts, Whenua Tōpū Trusts, Pūtea Trusts,
Māori Incorporations and non-Māori Land Court created structures or organisations but it does not include agencies or agents)
Rohe # Trusts # Blks with
Trusts
# Blks
no Trusts
Area vested(ha) Area not vested(ha)
Taitokerau 1,088 1,459 3,940 88,704.9389 (60%) 59,204...
Trusts
(Note: The term trusts includes all types of management structure, including Ahu WhenuaTrusts, Whenua Tōpū Trusts, Pūtea Trusts,
Māori Incorporations and non-Māori Land Court created structures or organisations but it does not include agencies or agents)
Rohe # Trusts # Blks with
Trusts
# Blks
no Trusts
Area vested(ha) Area not vested(ha)
Taitokerau 1,088 1,459 3,940 88,704.9389 (60%) 59,204...
Trusts / Incorporations
(Note: # Trusts = Total Number of Trusts, # Blks with Trusts = Total Number of blocks with a trust, # Blks no Trusts = Total Number of
blocks with no trusts, Area vested(ha) = Total hectares vested in a trust and Area not vested(ha) = Total hectares not vested in any trust)
Rohe # Trusts # Blks with
Trusts
# Blks
no Trusts
Area vested(ha) Area not vested(ha)
Taitokerau 1007...
Trusts / Incorporations
(Note: # Trusts = Total Number of Trusts, # Blks with Trusts = Total Number of blocks with a trust, # Blks no Trusts = Total Number of
blocks with no trusts, Area vested(ha) = Total hectares vested in a trust and Area not vested(ha) = Total hectares not vested in any trust)
Rohe # Trusts # Blks with
Trusts
# Blks
no Trusts
Area vested(ha) Area not vested(ha)
Taitokerau ...
Trusts / Incorporations
(Note: # Trusts = Total Number of Trusts, # Blks with Trusts = Total Number of blocks with a trust, # Blks no Trusts = Total Number of
blocks with no trusts, Area vested(ha) = Total hectares vested in a trust and Area not vested(ha) = Total hectares not vested in any trust)
Rohe # Trusts # Blks with
Trusts
# Blks
no Trusts
Area vested(ha) Area not vested(ha)
Taitokerau 1007...