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The purpose of this was to help Māori better manage the remaining Māori land. The rate of Māori land acquisition slowed markedly after Gordon Coates replaced W. H. Herries as native minister in 1921. [17] The Native Land Court changed its focus to helping to develop Māori land and the Native Trustee was able to loan money to individual Māori.
The Māori Land Court (Māori: Te Kōti Whenua Māori) is the specialist court of record in New Zealand that hears matters relating to Māori land. Established in 1865 as the Native Land Court , its purpose was to translate customary communal landholdings into individual titles recognisable under English law .
Tukiri opposed a NZ$170 million (NZ$1=US$0.67) deal between the government and the Tainui Māori Trust Board due to be signed 22 May as final settlement for the government's land seizures last century. The agreement will turn over 86,000 acres (350 km 2) of state-owned land to the trust board and NZ$65 million for further purchases of private ...
Ngata helped overcome the issues related with that. A forceful speaker, he was able to interpret and explain impact of legislation on Māori land ownership. Legislation that cause Ngata to speak out include the Māori Trustee Act 1953, the Public Works Act 1981, the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967, and the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004. [1 ...
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act replaced the Maori Affairs Act 1953 [4] and is administered by Te Puni Kōkiri (the Ministry of Māori Development). [5] Under previous acts, like the Native Act 1894, any communally owned Māori land could be converted to freehold land (sometimes automatically).
The full title of the act is: "An Act to Amend and Consolidate the: Laws relating to Lands in the Colony in which· the Maori Proprietary Customs still exist and to provide for the ascertainment of the Titles to such Lands and for Regulating the Descent, thereof and for other purposes."
The legislation specified that the land be held in trust "for the common benefit of Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau and the other people of Auckland". The Tūpuna Taonga Trust is the legal entity set up to receive the cultural redress over the maunga on behalf of the collective, with a primary focus of "enduring protection and appropriate ...
In the 1920s, land commissions investigated the grievances of hapū whose land had been confiscated or otherwise fraudulently obtained in the previous century, and many were found to be valid. [11] By the 1940s, settlements in the form of modest annual payments had been arranged with some hapū.