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Aotea
PĀNUI
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mohiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti
Whenua Māori ki te whakawa, ki te uiui hoki, i nga
tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
A Special Sitting
At Whanganui
Māori Land Court
Ingestre Chambers
74 Ingestre Street
Whanganui
Wednesday 16 August 2023
Judge A H C Warren
PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
SAug16/2 4:00PM AP-20230000027410
A20200003623
231/93 Verna Jean
Snowden
Rangiom...
...August 2023
Judge A H C Warren
PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
SAug16/1 2:00PM AP-20230000030878
A20200010482
231/93 Brian Te
Watene Te
Huia
Te Watene Rihara and Patua
Taua (Rosemary) Te Huia
Whanau Trust - Review of trust
For further clarification please contact:
District Office: Ingestre Chambers, 74 Ingestre Street, DX Box PX 10207, WHANGANUI
PH: (06) 349 0770 Email: Maia-Jeanne.McAllister@j...
S The total number of allocated ownership records recorded in all blocks is 3,136.458.
Land Interest Trusts
S The total number of Whānau Trusts nationally is 12,247
S The total number of Kaitiaki Trusts nationally is 2,459
Exclusion list
The following land types have been excluded from this update:
S Crown Land, Crown Land Reserved for Māori, Other, General Land owned by Māori (a total of 450 blocks covering an
area of 23,452.1288 ha)
S Blocks pending internal revie...
Where the Māori Trustee has been appointed as responsible trustee of a Māori Land Trust, we provide a range of services that support the owners and trustees, including:
Administer trusts in accordance with the trust order
Convene and facilitate owner hui, also known as meetings of owners
Provide reports and information regarding the administration of the trust and the whenua to advisory trustees and owners
Identify and undertake work to protect and enhance the wh...
Use this form to add, reduce, replace or (in exceptional circumstances) remove trustees of a Whānau Trust, Kaitiaki Trust,
Ahu Whenua Trust, Whenua Tōpū Trust, Pūtea Trust or Māori Reservation.
In recognition of the principles of the Act that land is taonga
tuku iho, of special significance, and to promote the retention
of the land in the hands of its owners and their whānau and
hapū, the judges usually require that an owner wishing to gift
or sell an interest first consult with their children and whānau.
Where the Māori Trustee has been appointed as responsible trustee of a Māori Land Trust, we provide a range of services that support the owners and trustees, including:
Administer trusts in accordance with the trust order
Convene and facilitate owner hui, also known as meetings of owners
Provide reports and information regarding the administration of the trust and the whenua to advisory trustees and owners
Identify and undertake work to protect and enhance the wh...
[NAME OF MARAE] Marae Charter
1 Name and location
1.1 The name of the marae is [ ] Marae.
1.2 It is located at [ ].
1.3 The land on which the marae sits is a Māori Reservation set aside for the purpose of [STATE PURPOSE
EXPRESSED WHEN THE RESERVATION WAS MADE].
2 Purpose
2.1 This charter is made under the Māori Reservation Regulations 1994 to set out clearly the purpose of the marae
and the role of the marae trustees in managing and running it.
2.2 The function and purp...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP1 12:10 PM AP-20250000004899 241/93 David James
Davies
He tauwehenga i ētahi pānga
whenua atu i te Rangitopeora
Whānau Trust
Removal of land interests from the
Rangitopeora Whānau Trust
