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9:30am AP-20240000003487 S53A(1)/
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Tama Potaka Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua
Trust Board - Investigate any
irregularities in the 2023
elections of Te Rūnanga o
Ngāti Whātua under s 53A(1) of
the Māori Trust Boards Act
1955
An investigation by Judge Wainwright under section 53A(a) of the Māori Trust Boards Act 1955 into whether the
election that took place from June-November 2023 to elect trustees to Te Rūnanga o Ngāti
A mihi followed, delivered by Dr Jeremy Tātere MacLeod (Ngāti Kahungunu), before the Court held a formal sitting presided over by Judge Damian Stone (Ngāti Kahungunu), Māori Land Court Judge for Tākitimu.
In the recent High Court decision of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust v Attorney-General [2022] NZHC 843,
there was considerable discussion of tikanga Māori in the context of who exercised mana whenua
where the following were found;
- Tikanga Māori is a source of broadly shared core values (tāhuhu) that may inform the
development of the law and in some contexts is law
E
rere ana ngā mihi mahana ki a Ngāti Pōneke Toi
Māori mō ō rātou manaakitanga ki te whaka-
manuhiri i te kaupapa o Matariki Horahora i te
wiki whakanui i a Matariki.
Te mahi ngātahi
Act jointly
Me mātua mahi tahi me ētahi atu kaitiaki ka tohua mō tō tarahiti. Ahakoa ka taka ki tā te nuinga i kī ai, ka ōrite katoa koutou i roto i ngā whakatau tikanga a te tarahiti, ahakoa pai, kino rānei.
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SP10 1.00PM AP-2024000013666 19/93
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237/93
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Glen
Skipper,Rangi
Kipa, Tarina
MacDonald
Ngāti Tawhirikura Hapū
Charitable Trust – Injunction
against any person in respect of
any actual threatened trespass
or other injury to any Māori land
or Māori Reservation
(Respondents: Ngāti
Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable
trustees Beverly Gibson, Sam
Williams, and Sharron Wipiti)
Aotea
PĀNUI
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SP11 10.00 AM AP-2024000013666 19/93
67/93
236/93
237/93
238/93
240/93
Glen Skipper,
Rangi Kipa,
Tarina
MacDonald
Ngāti Tawhirikura Hapū
Charitable Trust – Injunction
against any person in respect of
any actual threatened trespass
or other injury to any Māori land
or Māori Reservation
(Respondents: Ngāti
Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable
trustees Beverly Gibson, Sam
Williams, and Sharron Wipiti)
Aotea
PĀNUI
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP10 1.00PM AP-2024000013666 19/93
67/93
236/93
237/93
238/93
240/93
Glen
Skipper,Rangi
Kipa, Tarina
MacDonald
Ngāti Tawhirikura Hapū
Charitable Trust – Injunction
against any person in respect of
any actual threatened trespass
or other injury to any Māori land
or Māori Reservation
(Respondents: Ngāti
Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable
trustees Beverly Gibson, Sam
Williams, and Sharron Wipiti)
Aotea
PĀNUI
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP6 10:00 AM AP-20240000013666 67/93
236/93
237/93
238/93
240/93
Tarina MacDonald,
Glen Skipper, and
Rangi Kipa
Ngāti Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable
Trust – Injunction against any person
in respect of any actual threatened
trespass or other injury to any Māori
land or Māori Reservation
(Respondents: Ngāti Tawhirikura
Hapū Charitable trustees Beverly
Gibson, Sam Williams, and Sharron
Wipiti)
The Court may convene to mak...
