Due to limited access to the building, the Auckland Information Office is available by appointment only. Please contact us by email at mlctamakimakaurau@justice.govt.nz
All other applications will
not be processed until the court reopens on Monday, 5 January 2026.
Step 1
Complete the required application form MLC-Form-1-General-application.pdf and
if appropriate a request for fee waiver MLC-Document-A1-request-waiver.pdf
Step 2
Call the relevant district Duty Registrar regarding your urgent application.
If you think that you have been
adversely affected by this process and wish to make representations on the application, you must notify the
Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1 September 2022 and specify brief details of your concerns.
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On 21 and 23 September 1887, on the application of representatives of
Ngāti Tūwharetoa, the Native Land Court partitioned the Tongariro No
1 Block into Tongariro 1A, 1B and 1C, Ruapehu 1 into Ruapehu 1A and 1B,
and Ruapehu 2 into Ruapehu 2 into Ruapehu 2A and 2B.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make submissions or
provide evidence concerning the application, you must notify the Registrar in writing by 4 pm on
Thursday, 1 June 2023 providing your name and address, telephone number, and email address (if
any), and setting out your connection to the application and brief details of your concerns.
In some instances this is because the land has only one or just a few owners, or because the land is unsuitable for any form of development and owners have decided to leave it in its natural state.
E & J.D Morgan
Family Trust)
92 12:15PM A20190011195 67/93,
237/93
Pauline Lockett Ngati Te Whiti Whenua Topu Trust -
Application for Protective Costs
Hui-Tanguru / FEBRUARY 2023 - NATIONAL PÄNUI 5
AOTEA continued
PÄNUI
NO:
TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
93 12:35PM A20170004318 67/93 Deputy Registrar Ngati Te Whiti Whenua Topu Trust -
Judicial conference
94 12:55PM A20160002808 67/93 John Neal Part Ngatirahiri 3 Block (Motunui
Primary School Site (TN72/225))...
I now turn to consider in detail the five propositions and the various
recommendations made in the Panel’s report.
Proposition 1: Utilisation of Māori land should be able to be determined by a
majority of engaged owners
The difficulty with proposition 1 is its underlying premise that there are significant
impediments in the Act to the engaged owners utilising their land, and that a remedy
is therefore needed.