If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4pm on the 1st day of April providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1st day of March 2026 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1st day of March 2026 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
If you are interested in, or affected by, one of these applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in writing by 4 pm on the 1st day of March 2026 providing your name, address, telephone number and email address (if any) and setting out your connection with the application and brief details of your concerns.
The beneficiaries are the descendants of the tīpuna (ancestors) named in the trust order and can include whāngai.
This fact sheet provides a guide to minute book: • naming conventions • series types • syntax • hints and tips • abbreviations.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-Minute-Book-Abbreviations.pdf (470 kb)
Different spelling of names: landowners often have more than one name, and not all of those names may have been known when the initial application was submitted.
(In fact all the minutes record is the list of names). Examples of the Court vesting a block in a ‘tribe by name’ are very difficult to find.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
There are 308 original owners. Block name: Crown Land Block X Paterson Survey District {Port Adventure (South Island Landless Natives Act 1906)} Block ID: 296779 Hectares: 4046.8564 Apply for succession to an untransferred SILNA block If a person on the list has passed away, you will need to apply to the Court to update the list.
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 the 1st of September 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.
Documents/Panui/0805823-Ministry-of-Justice_Panui-September-2023-web.pdf (832 kb)
