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This trust will hold the land for the beneficial owners, hapū, iwi, or Whenua Tōpū trust.

Located in:  Māori land Manage your land

Your key duties as a trustee are to: continue to grow the value of the land or shares without creating significant costs protect the assets of the trust.

Located in:  Māori land Manage your land

If you’re making a whenua timeline you can access historical information of that whenua as recorded in the Māori Land Court (or our predecessor, the Native Land Court).

Located in:  The court record

If the trustees acquire further land or other assets for the purposes of the trust, that land becomes trust land, and the other assets become trust property.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Ahu-Whenua-Trust-Order-Template-18082025.pdf (444 kb)

Succession applications are ongoing. People on this list have been determined to be entitled successors to the original beneficiaries of the land.

Documents/SILNA/Working-List-of-Potential-Owners-Hawea-Wanaka-SILNA-as-at-25-May-2025.pdf (1.1 mb)

The test call is to: Confirm that you can join by telephone or video-conference successfully and that you can use the technology. Confirm the court protocols.

Located in:  Our application process Attend court or mediation

(b) Promote title improvement by: (i) granting or acquiring any type of right or interest in land; (ii) subdividing any land; (iii) bringing any application to the Māori Land Court that might facilitate the operation of this Trust and the improvement of title to land (held by the Trustees on behalf of the Trust), including applications under Part 14 of the Act; and (iv) forwarding to the Registrar of the Māori Land Court in relation to the abo...

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Standard-Ahu-Whenua-Trust-Order-with-Checklist-and-Disclaimer.pdf (488 kb)

The below tables provide a snapshot of information relating to the Māori Land Court caseload from June 2022 to May 2023.

Documents/Articles/Te-Kooti-Whenua-Maori-Purongo-a-tau-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)

On this page Upcoming trustee training Current trustee training roster We offer online training to help trustees better understand their duties and legal obligations, and how to run trusts successfully. You can attend a session if you are a newly appointed trustee, if you are thinking about becoming a trustee, or if you would like to refresh your knowledge.

Located in:  Hui and court hearings

This data only includes block information regarding Māori Customary, Māori Freehold and Aggregated Lands. It does not include information about Crown Land, Crown Land Reserved for Māori, Other, Ownership Only, General Land owned by Māori, General Land or blocks pending internal review.

Documents/Maori-Land-Data/MLC-2023-05-19-National-List-Maori-Land-in-New-Zealand-v1.xlsx (2.1 mb)