For further information, please contact the Office of the Chief Registrar in Wellington, quoting the
appropriate application number at:
Physical address: Postal address:
L7, Fujitsu Tower, 141 The Terrace DX Box SX11203
WELLINGTON WELLINGTON
Phone: 04 914 3102
Fax: 04 914 3100
Email: mlc.chief-registrars.office@justice.govt.nz
STEVEN DODD
Chief Registrar, Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court
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APPLICATION NO:
SECTION:...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP4 10:00 AM AP-20240000008846 19/93 Kirsten
McDonald
Kai Iwi 1G2 Block (Kai Iwi 1G2 Māori
Reservation) - Injunction against any
person in respect of any actual
threatened trespass or other injury to
any Māori land or Māori Reservation.
Fourth And one of the funnier issues that it has thrown up for improvement, involves the appellations chosen for land blocks. Judges and Registrars past, have tended to default to surveyors over the names of newly created titles following partitions, consolidations, amalgamations or aggregations of Māori land.
Prepare for court hearing
AP-20240000014155 19/12/2024 Tuhuna 12A1 block - Application for payment from the Māori Land Court Special Aid Fund for reasonable legal costs.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP6 12:30 PM AP-20250000006215 310/93 Hara Piahana
Mary Adams
Part Pukehou 5L No 1A and Section
1-2 Survey Office Plan 488517 –
Exchange of Land Blocks
TE ROHE O AOTEA
TE ROHE O AOTEA
NATIONAL PĀNUI December | Tīhema 2025 24
At Palmerston North | Te Whare Wairua o Mererikiriki, 138 Maxwells Line, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Via Zoom – Meeting ID: Meeting ID: 898 0767 8918
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Judge M J Doogan presiding...
Use this form when transferring interests in Māori Land by sale or gift between owners in the same block, owners and
their children or owners and any other member of the preferred class of alienee.
For a
full explanation, please refer to either the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 | Māori Land Act 1993 or the
Māori Land Court Rules 2011
SECTION DESCRIPTION
4/55 Governor-General in council may declare land to be a Māori reserve
6/1983 Determine succession to Titi Islands lands (order)
12/75 Determination of ownership of taonga tūturu found
18(1)(a)/93 Exercise general jurisdiction of court
18(1)(b)/93 Determine the relative interests of the owners...
For a
full explanation, please refer to either the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 | Māori Land Act 1993 or the
Māori Land Court Rules 2011
SECTION DESCRIPTION
4/55 Governor-General in council may declare land to be a Māori reserve
6/1983 Determine succession to Titi Islands lands (order)
12/75 Determination of ownership of taonga tūturu found
18(1)(a)/93 Exercise general jurisdiction of court
18(1)(b)/93 Determine the relative interests of the owners...
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Notification of applications that remain
outstanding in the office of the Chief
Registrar, Wellington
October 2025
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 13th of August 2025, 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 for inqu...
