Māori became very used to the Court and its methods of hearing cases and taking evidence. The Court recorded its evidence and judgments in large leather-bound folio books, the ‘Minute Books’, which today form a vast record of the Court’s proceedings.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
On this page Records available for viewing Making copies of the court record Records available for viewing Most of the record is available to the public for viewing in hard copy.
Te uru ki te pūkete puka Access the physical record Read about the records that are available to view in hard copy.
Footnotes 3 4 After the hearing The minutes (record of the hearing) will be typed from a recording made at the hearing and will be signed by the Judge.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-applications-english.pdf (327 kb)
TREASURER The treasurer’s main duty is to keep meticulous records of all financial transactions for the trust.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/20210715-Trustees-Role-and-Duties.pdf (349 kb)
Now, landowners seeking to form an incorporation need to show there is a sufficient degree of support for the proposal, and that sufficient notice of the proposal has been given. Recording dividends There is a new requirement on incorporations to record the details of dividends paid to shareholders.
After the hearing After the hearing, a record of it (‘minutes’) will be typed and given to the judge to sign.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.6E-OCT21-Applications.pdf (335 kb)
Rapua a Pātaka Whenua Search Pātaka Whenua Pātaka Whenua holds information about whenua and the court record.
Additional interests 7 7.3 If, after the constitution of this Trust, any additional Māori land interests are vested in the name of any person who has vested Māori land interests into this Trust, those additional interests shall be included as Trust Property of this Trust by application to the Court by the Registrar without notice to the Beneficiaries. Records 7.4 The Trustees must keep competent records and retain the following core Trust documents, so far as i...
Publication of recordings in this manner “enables the public to view entire, unedited proceedings” and at the same time “enables the Court to retain control of the recordings”.
