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Search for a block
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 19 November 2025
This guide covers two ways to search for a block in the Pātaka Whenua online portal:
• using the Search menu to find a block
• Near Match Search (page 1),
• Exact Match Search (page 4),
• locating it visually with the Block Map (page 7).
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Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Search for a
management structure
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 19 November 2025
You do not need to be a registered Pātaka Whenua user in order to search and access
management structure information.
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Search for an ownership
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 29 September 2025
You do not need to be a registered Pātaka Whenua user in order to search and access
ownership information.
Prepare for court hearing
AP-20230000027522
A20210013061
21/10/2021 CJ 2021/50 - Pupuke G2C - and vesting orders made on 27 July 2016 at 135 TTK 277-281 - Application to the Chief Judge 45/93 Arkiwhata Flavell 5.
The concept was not lost, however, on the Ministry of Māori Development who, following a workshop hui at Rawhiti on 02 March 1992, included whānau trusts in the Māori Affairs Bill which passed into law on 09 March 1993 as Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993, with effect from 01 July 1993. There have, of course, been numerous ahu whenua trust orders with composite whānau trust-administered areas created since Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 gave statutory recognition to shareholdings within block...
Te Kooti Whenua Māori
Māori Land Court
Te wāhi: Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Te hunga kooti i reira:
Present
S F Reeves, Te Kaiwhakawā
M K Hickey,Te Karaka o te Kooti
Te rangi: 17 Āperira 2026
Te nama o te tono:
Application number
AP-20260000004949
Te kaupapa: He whakarerekētanga ki ngā rā nohoanga i te rohe o
Te Waipounamu
Cancellation of Te Waipounamu court sitting
Te ture: Te ture o Ngā Ture o Te Kooti Whenua Māori 2011:
3.8(1)(c)
Ngā kōrerorero:
Dis...
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AP-20230000027522
A20210013061
21/10/2021 CJ 2021/50 - Pupuke G2C - and vesting orders made on 27 July 2016 at 135 TTK 277-281 - Application to the Chief Judge 44(1)/93
47(4)/93
Arkiwhata Flavell 5.
Prepare for court hearing
AP-20230000019665
A20180006647
4/09/2018 CJ 2018/26 - Pukawa Ngataua - and orders made at 93 OTR 20 (23 July 1974), 2 ADWG 243 (21 December 1977) and 7 RGWG 138 (9 July 1984) and
9 RGWG 117-118 (14 November 1986) - Application to the Chief Judge
45/93 Te Urunga Evelyn Aroha Kereopa 5.
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Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 16 December 2024
Submitting an application
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Guest users: Get started by clicking “Submit an application” on the Pātaka Whenua portal.
TAITOKERAU
PĀNUI
Contact Details
Office Te Taitokerau
Address 16 Rathbone Street
Mailing address DX Box AX10086, Whangārei
Phone 09 948 9940
Email mlctaitokerau@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
The following specia...