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The new technology allows you to submit applications and enquiries online, find maps, and search ownership information online wherever you may be.

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Freehold titles are often divided by partition order. The land retains the status of Māori land.

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Freehold titles are often divided by partition order. The land retains the status of Māori land.

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This is referred to as ‘title improvement’.

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Paneke are an opportunity for court users based in smaller towns and centres to meet with our kaimahi and kōrero about: completing application forms submitting an enquiry searching the court record updates on current applications and enquiries updating information in Pātaka Whenua other services normally available at a Māori Land Court office.

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There are at least two classes of land rights – the right of the community associated with the land, and the use rights of individuals or families.1 Where have we come from: On the 17th of October 1877, Chief Justice Sir James Prendergast’s statements when delivering judgment in the case of Wi Parata v The Bishop of Wellington ruled that the courts lacked the ability to consider claims based on aboriginal or native title. The Treaty of Waitangi was ‘worthless’ because it had...

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In Pātaka Whenua, landowners can find information about their whenua, search the court record, and apply to the court directly online.

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In Pātaka Whenua, you can find information about your whenua, search the court record, make an application or enquiry online and pay the application filing fee.

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Freehold titles are often divided by partition order. The land retains the status of Māori land.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)

Perhaps it is also partly the result of difficulty in obtaining mortgages on Māori freehold land, which prior to 1993 drove people to shift title into the Land Transfer title system. The problem we face is not quite as dramatic as I see in the Cook Islands and Niue where I also serve.

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