Māori Customary Land Titles: Rohe # Area (ha) Taitokerau 5 38.5573 Waikato Maniapoto 12 48.2919 Waiariki 2 8.9030 Tairāwhiti 2 14.1413 Tākitimu 1 0.2124 Aotea 15 659.1240 Te Waipounamu 1 1.9600 Total 38 771.1899 Māori Freehold Land Titles: Rohe # Area (ha) Taitokerau 5,394 147,870.5143 Waikato Maniapoto 3,716 124,225.9531 Waiariki 5,098 305,896.2257 Tairāwhiti 5,341 268,506.5352 Tākitimu 1,357 87,914....
Documents/Maori-Land-Data/Maori-Land-Update-2014.pdf (572 kb)
...Carry on a business on the trust land, or in relation to trust property, and are allowed to do all things necessary (subject to the duties contained in this trust order), in the process of carrying on that business or businesses. (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 improve...
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Ahu-Whenua-Trust-Order-Template-18082025.pdf (444 kb)
The order will be written up in the Court title records if it affects land, and sent to every person who has to act on it, for example, to the Māori trustee if they’ve been ordered to pay money they’re holding, or a Māori incorporation5 if the order affects shares in that incorporation.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.6E-OCT21-Applications.pdf (335 kb)
...to be exchanged a full description of that land so as to enable it to be clearly identified together with particulars of all encumbrances recorded against the land Where any piece of land to be exchanged is only part of the land comprised in a title, a plan defining the piece to be exchanged.
The website also contains a link to Māori Land Online, a tool that provides web based information on the current ownership and title information 1 for all Māori Land Court blocks.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-applications-english.pdf (327 kb)
However, if the document needs to be registered against the Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) title 13 to the land, then every trustee must sign it.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
NOTICE TO PREFERRED CLASSES OF ALIENEES AS TO RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993, Sections 147A and 152 In the Māori Land Court of New Zealand Aotea District Subject of application Kai Iwi 5D1A2 (Record of Title 1038392) Notice I, Donald Brent Richards, have applied to the Māori Land Court at Whanganui for confirmation of a sale of the above Māori freehold land.
...have an average size of 12.88 ha and average 41 owners; • Overall an average Māori land block has a size of 52.64 ha and 111 owners; and • The total number of allocated ownership records recorded in all blocks is 3,136.458 Māori Customary Land Titles: Rohe # Area (ha) Taitokerau 5 38.5573 Waikato-Maniapoto 14 48.2919 Waiariki 2 453.2479 Tairāwhiti 2 4.8688 Tākitimu 1 0.2124 Aotea 15 659.1240 Te Waipounamu 0 0.0000 Total 39 1,204.3023 Māori Freehold Land T...
Documents/Maori-Land-Data/2025-10-28-MLC-Maori-Land-Update-2025.pdf (229 kb)
...historic ownership lists for whenua Māori minutes of hearings of Court and Registrar decisions current and historic memorial schedule information recording leases, occupations and other land uses orders made by the court or a Registrar – including: title orders (creating Māori land) trust orders (names of trustees and terms of trust) succession orders (names of successors to an estate) vesting orders (transfers of shares in Māori land) status orders (declaring the status of land t...
Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand Toitū te Whenua hold information about historical transfers, surveying titles, or land that has been converted to general land.
