SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 8 11:00 AM AP-20230000021994 238/93 Manu Sharon
Te Whata
Akura Lands Trust - Review of
trust and enforcement of
obligations
SP 9 11:30 AM AP-20230000021995 289/93 South
Wairarapa
District Council
Part Papawai 13 Block (CT
WN72/9) - Partition into Papawai
13A and 13B blocks - Judicial
Conference
SP 10 12:30 PM AP-20230000021627 37/93
131/93
Dr Bryan Gilling
(Morrison Kent)
Whareama Sec 767, 770, 771 -
Determination of status and
gene...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 3 10:00 AM AP-20250000013125 58/93 Round Corner
Limited
Appeal 2025/23 - Moutere 8B2 Sec 1
Lot 3 Deposited Plan 20707 and
Moutere 8B2 Sec 1 Lot 5 Deposited
Plan 20707 blocks and determination of
status orders made at 510 Aotea MB
97-127 on 14/8/2025 - Notice of Appeal
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 7 10:00 AM AP-20250000014275 58/93 Stewart Robert
Coulson
Appeal 2025/27 - Lot 3 Deposited Plan
37325 (SA989/287) and a refusal to
grant applications for injunction and
determine status of land made at 283
Waikato Maniapoto MB 256-259 dated
15/9/2025 – Notice of Appeal
(Respondent: Māori Land Court)
Taitokerau
PĀNUI
He pānuitanga tenei kia mohiotia ai ka tu Te Kooti
Whenua Māori ki te whakawa, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā
tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
A Judicial Conference
At Whangārei
(via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99314293400)
Courtroom 1, Māori Land Court, Second Floor,
16 Rathbone Street, Whangārei
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Judge T K T A R Williams
PĀNUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
WHSP 1 10:00AM AP-20230000029...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP1 11:45 AM AP-20250000012141 29/93
113/93
455/1998
Huhuti Phillips Maora Kirkpatrick also known as
Maora Te Nahu - Succession to
Hāwea/Wānaka Substitute land
(being Section 2 of 5, Block XIV,
Lower Wānaka Survey District) -
South Island Landless Natives
(SILNA) Block
WĀ TĪNA – 1:30 PM
SP2 2:30 PM AP-20250000009740 21/1994
67/93
Jennifer Hodson
Chanel Starkey
Mangamaunu Māori Reserve Land
Trust and Nga Uri o Mangamaunu
Inc society –...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 5 10:00 AM AP-20250000008263 58/93 Te Arawa
Management
Limited
Appeal 2025/15 - Lot 1 Deposited
Plan SA19243 (CFR SA63B/895) -
78 Town Point Road, Maketu, Lot 3
Deposited Plan SA19243 (CFR
SA18B/128) - 72 Town Point Road,
Maketu, Lot 4 Deposited Plan
SA19243 (CFR SA18B/129) - 76
Town Point Road, Maketu and Lot 5
Deposited Plan SA19243 (CFR
SA18B/130) - 76 Town Point Road,
Maketu blocks and an order
determining the status of the la...
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