For further clarification please contact: Office: Level 7, Fujitsu Tower, 141 The Terrace, Wellington, DX Box SX 11203, WELLINGTON PH: (04) 914 3102 Fax: (04) 914 3100 Office of the Chief Registrar PĀNUI He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki te whakawā , ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai Chief Judge application To be heard via Zoom 26 March 2024 Chief Judge C L Fox PĀ NUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: S...
Those entitled to succeed do not wish to form a whānau trust. Those entitled to succeed have conferred and wish to vest the interests of the deceased into a whānau trust.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-21-Application-for-succession2F.pdf (941 kb)
Examples of the Court vesting a block in a ‘tribe by name’ are very difficult to find.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
Records include: o Appointment of trustees o Applications for new trusts, replacement trusts, variations to trusts and supporting information o Vesting orders o Copies of court minutes o Court orders o Trust reports and accounts o Trust correspondence with the Court Consolidation records: Consolidation was the process whereby scattered interests in small, usually unprofitable blocks of land were brought together into lar...
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
This model for the utilisation of multiply-owned Māori land had its origins in Taitokerau in 1989 where, under s 438 of the Māori Affairs Act 1953, a block was vested in a trust with exclusive use areas identified in a schedule to the trust order for whānau shareholding groups.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP1 10:00 AM AP-20240000013209 45/93, Rule 6.9/2011 Phyllis Rangiaho, and Colin Francis Cameron CJ 2024/90 - Waiohau C Section 4 Papakainga No.1 (Patuheuheu Marae) block - William McCauley also known as Billie Mekore and a vesting order made at 80 Whakatane MB 172 on 7/9/1988, Wiremu Wire also known as Wiremu Mekore Wire or Wiremu Mekore or McCauley or Wiremu Wiri McCauley and a succession order made at 88 Whakata...
Documents/Panui/1.-DCJ-Hearing-10-March-2026-Panui.pdf (152 kb)
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP1 10:00 AM AP-20240000013209 45/93, Rule 6.9/2011 Phyllis Rangiaho, and Colin Francis Cameron CJ 2024/90 - Waiohau C Section 4 Papakainga No.1 (Patuheuheu Marae) block - William McCauley also known as Billie Mekore and a vesting order made at 80 Whakatane MB 172 on 7/9/1988, Wiremu Wire also known as Wiremu Mekore Wire or Wiremu Mekore or McCauley or Wiremu Wiri McCauley and a succession order made at 88 Whakata...
Documents/Panui/1-v2.-DCJ-Hearing-10-March-2026-Panui.pdf (152 kb)
Where that land is vested in a trust or an incorporation, such an order will only be made with the consent of the trust or management committee, and may be made for a specified period.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP18 11:15 AM AP-20250000002199 45/93 Stacey Tawhai, Jessie Tawhai, James Withers, Kahurangi Tawhai, Phillip Tawhai, Jason Tawhai, Zivana Tawhai CJ 2025/11 - Watene Tawhai and succession orders made at 89 Opotiki 235-240 on 2/11/2005 SP19 11:30 AM AP-20240000013679 45/93 Wiremu Rudolph CJ 2024/89 - Pakinga C1 block - Hone Rurawhe also known as Jack Rudolph and a vesting order made at 13 Kaitaia MB 44 on 1...
Documents/Landowner-notices/11-June-2026-Panui-CJ.pdf (154 kb)
• Whānau trust This is a whānau-oriented trust. It allows the whānau to bring together their Māori land interests for the benefit of the whānau and their descendants.
Uploads/MOJ0217.1E-Maori-Land-Trusts-May19-v2-WEB.pdf (166 kb)
