Respondents: Kai Iwi 1G2 Māori
Reservation Trustees)
At Whanganui | Māori Land Court, Ingestre Chambers, 74 Ingestre Street, Whanganui
Via Zoom – Meeting ID: 896 8250 4567
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Judge A H C Warren presiding
Applications to be heard
PĀNUI
NO.
In terms of Regulation 3(h),
any trustee removed by the Court should
not later be reappointed as a trustee for the
same reservation (removal by Court is a
disciplinary matter).
Alienation of interests
proceeded very rapidly, purchased by land
speculators and land brokers such as Frederick
Sutton, R D Maney, J H Coleman and others.
Crown officials and others became concerned
about this rapid loss of land.
Ko te tikanga me tuku rawa ngā kaitiaki me
ngā kaiwhiwhi hua he tono kia whakamutua
tētahi kaitiaki. I raro i te Ture 3(h), ko te
kaitiaki ka whakamutua e te kooti, e kore e
taea te whakaingoa anō hei kaitiaki mō taua
papa kāinga tonu (mēnā ka whakamutua e te
kōti, he take whakawā kē tēnei).
The Māori Land Court can make succession
orders for:
• any interest in Māori land
• any freehold interest owned by a Māori in
general land 7 (but only on application by
a personal representative 8 appointed by
the High Court)
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• any leasehold interest in a registered
cross lease 9 over Māori land
• money held by the Māori Trustee (or
any other agent, trustee 10, or Māori
incorporation) for the deceased derived
from Māori land
• interests in Tītī Islands (see page 8)
• in...
Where
general land is owned by more than one
person, it is deemed to be held by them
jointly unless the title states otherwise.
9 People, who as co-owners, own land
together but in separate interests.
Mēnā he whenua
whānui, he maha ngā kaipupuri, kei a rātou
katoa te mana pupuri, hāunga anō, mēnā he
rerekē tā te taitara i tohu ai.
9 He tāngata ōrite te mana pupuri, engari he
rerekē te rahi o ia whenua me te wāriu o ngā
rawa.
The beneficiaries are called the beneficial
owners.
7 The traditional Māori tribal hierarchy and
social order made up of hapū (kin groups) and
whānau (family groups), having a founding
ancestor and territorial (tribal) boundaries.
8 A subtribe or kin group that is linked by a
common ancestor.
9 Māori custom.
10 The owner of a beneficial interest in land.