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ISSN 1175 - 8120 (Print)
ISSN 2463-3763 (Online)
www.mäorilandcourt.govt.nz
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AUGUST | HERE-TURI-KÖKÄ
2023
The purpose of the National Pänui / Te Pänui ä Motu is
to provide notice to interested parties of hearings being
conducted in, and applications received by, the Mäori Land
Court.
The Court may, on considering your notification, arrange for the application to be set down for a formal hearing
if the application has yet to be determined or for a rehearing if the application has already been determined.
However, especially where older urupā are concerned, and as the generations increase, there may no longer be sufficient land left to receive the bodies of all those who wish to be buried in their ancestral urupā. As a result, from time to time the Māori Land Court receives applications to extend existing urupā, or to set aside Māori freehold land, or sometimes General land owned by Māori, as new urupā reservations.
Within the Māori Land Court districts, average ownership numbers range from 51 owners per block in the Tākitimu district to 154 owners per block in the Waiariki district.