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Summary of General Statutory Provisions
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Te rautaki Ao Māori
A te reo Māori resource for words
used in the Māori Land Court and
the Waitangi Tribunal
Ngā Kupu Māori mō te
Kooti Whenua Māori me
te Rōpū Whakamana i te
Tiriti o Waitangi
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acting prudently mahi i runga i te āta tūpato
acting reasonably mahi i runga i te āta whakaaro
acting competently mahi i runga i te matatau ki ngā mahi
acting in good conscience mahi i runga i te whakaaro pai
acting impartially mahi i runga i te tōkeke
active (as in inqu...
Metadata
Title: National Register of Māori Incorporations for New Zealand
Date of data: 30 June 2024
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 the Māori Land Information System of the Māori Land Court, New...
LAND TO BE EXCHANGED:
Names of owner Shares to be exchanged
Name of Block Value of shares
Names of owner Shares to be exchanged
Name of Block Value of shares
Names of owner Shares to be exchanged
Name of Block Value of shares
Names of owner Shares to be exchanged
Name of Block Value of shares
IS TO BE EXCHANGED WITH:
Names of owner Shares to be exchanged
Name of Block Value of shar...
Metadata
Title: National Register of Māori Incorporations for New Zealand
Date of data: 19 May 2023
Published by: Office of the Chief Registrar, Māori Land Court, Ministry of Justice, Wellington
Email: te.tiratu@justice.govt.nz
URI: 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 the Māori Land Information System of the Māori Land Court, New Z...
The first is that where trustees are not appointed according to an election the Court is accused of ignoring the wishes of the owners or of usurping their role in electing individuals of the owners’ choice.
Details as to how ownership of the land is to be apportioned after partition
Details of notice of the application or proposal to the owners, the minutes of any meetings
held for this purpose, and the amount of support for the proposal
Copy of the current (certificate of) title (if any) of any land included in partition
Local Authority approval (where applicable)
Consents of owners
Consents of Trustees (where applicable)...
Following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the Crown negotiated several largescale purchases of land in Te Waipounamu (the South Island) whereby almost the entire land base of Ngāi Tahu, some 34.5 million acres of land, was sold for £14,750. 1 Ngāi Tahu’s landlessness was the subject of several Crown investigations in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.