WAIARIKI
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Office Waiariki Māori Land Court
Address 1143 Haupapa Street, Rotorua 3010
Mailing address DX Box JX10529, Rotorua
Phone Office 07 921 7402
Email Office mlcwaiariki@justice.govt.nz
Office hours Monday to Friday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
(Closed on Public Holidays)
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti
Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā
tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
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SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP7 11:00 AM
AP-20240000011846 237/93 Lake Taupō
Forest Trust
Lake Taupō Forest Trust and
Tauranga Taupō 2B1B Block -
Seeking Directions from the Court
SP8 11:00 AM
AP-20230000029609 241/93 Jacqueline
Gates
Lake Taupo Forest Trust - Partial
termination of trust in respect of
Hautu 1B1B2B1E1 block
SP9 11:00 AM
AP-20250000001570
241/93
242/93
Aroha French He tauwehenga i ētahi pānga
whenua atu i te Lake Taupō Forest
Tru...
AOTEA
PĀNUI
Contact Details
Office Aotea Māori Land Court, Ingestre Chambers
Address 74 Ingestre Street
Mailing address DX Box PX10207, Whanganui
Phone 06-3490770
Email mlcaotea@justice.govt.nz
Office hours Monday to Friday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
(Closed on Public Holidays)
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti
Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā
tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
Special Court Sitting...
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Notification of applications that remain
outstanding in the office of the Chief
Registrar, Wellington
Ākuhata | August 2026
TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications, currently held in the Office of the Chief
Registrar in Wellington, received up to the panui closing date of 10th of June 2026, are hereby notified,
pursuant to rules 3.18, 5.3 and 8.2(3) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011, as being outstanding and
have yet to be determined or set down fo...
Kapohia ki te tuhirau, ki te reehuiringa
Preservation of the integrity of the record, the record will prevail As a court of record, our key purpose is to accurately document the succession and management of Māori land. That information makes up the Māori Land Court record, which is the legal and official documentation of land ownership of whenua Māori.
I cast my memory back to a hui of the Māori Law Society that was held not far from here, in Waitangi in 2015, when Sir Justice Joe Williams posed the question to the Society, Can you see the island? He was speaking of an island in which he dreamed there to be a justice system in which Pākehā law and tikanga Māori would sit side-by-side, and his challenge to the Society at that time was to be steadfast and resolute in our pursuit to reach that island, as in his opinion we were not...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP16 3:30 PM AP-20250000005962 244/93 Derna Trifilo,
John McIver,
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā tikanga
o te Parengaroa Ahu Whenua Trust
Vary the terms of the Parengaroa Ahu
Whenua Trust – Judicial Conference
SP17 3:30 PM AP-20260000001322 239/93 Derna Trifilo He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitiī mō Parengaroa Ahu
Whenua Trust
Replace Martin Kingi & Derna Trifilo
with Henry Tango, Davenna Penney &
John Kingi as responsib...
1
Notification of applications that remain
outstanding in the office of the Chief
Registrar, Wellington
Hepetema | September 2026
TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications, currently held in the Office of the Chief
Registrar in Wellington, received up to the panui closing date of 8th of July 2026, are hereby notified,
pursuant to rules 3.18, 5.3 and 8.2(3) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011, as being outstanding and
have yet to be determined or set down...