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The income usually goes to pay those concerned with the management of the land with the balance being used to awhi marae or to provide education grants and kaumatua grants.
Often this was at the request of the owners,
who wanted to have their land split up into
smaller sections so it could be better managed
for farming, or divided into house sites, marae
reserves and so on. Sometimes investigation
of title and partitioning were simultaneous
processes.
Setting aside new urupā A number of well established principles in relation to Māori reservations have been developed by the Court – these principles apply to urupā reservations as much as to marae or papakāinga. When the owners or trustees of a block of land make an application to set aside an urupā reservation over land that has not previously been used for burials, the applicants will need to show that they have called a well-notified meeting of the owners to discuss the proposal wit...
Māori Reservations
that are set aside as a Marae are required to have a
Charter agreed between the trustees and the people
for whom the Marae is reserved.
The Māori Land Court is notifying all interested parties of the above block about the following
hui:
Whenua: Puna-O-Maru Section 96
DATE: Saturday 27 September 2025
TIME: 12:30 pm.
VENUE: Waihao Marae
26 Māori Road
Morven
Waimate
Kaupapa:
• Vote on setting aside the whenua as a Māori reservation
