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Te Kaiwhakawā Matua o Te Kooti Whenua Māori me te Heamana o Te Rōpū Whakamana i Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court and Chairperson of the Waitangi Tribunal

03 May 2023  |  News

The Minister of Māori Development has sought expressions of interest for the next Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court, and will in due course announce the appointment of the next Chief Judge and Chairperson of the Waitangi Tribunal. The former Chief Judge continues to be presiding officer of the Waitangi Tribunal over those inquiries that have been already heard or part-heard by him.

South Island Landless Natives Act 1906 (SILNA): past, present and future

20 Jan 2021  |  News

Following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the Crown negotiated several largescale purchases of land in Te Waipounamu (the South Island) whereby almost the entire land base of Ngāi Tahu, some 34.5 million acres of land, was sold for £14,750. 1 Ngāi Tahu’s landlessness was the subject of several Crown investigations in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.