Fast Facts About Māori Trustee
- Māori Trustee started in 1921 as the "Native Trustee".
- Māori Trustee administers or manages over 105,000 hectares of Māori freehold land. That is about 7% of Māori land.
- We assist more than 126,000 owners to look after their land and assets.
- We administer more than 2000 properties.
- At 31 March 2009, we were administering 2,300 tenancies.
- We collect around $12 million each year in rent and other income for owners.
- Over the last five years, 95% of available funds have been paid to beneficial owners.
- We hold several million dollars of Unclaimed Money and regularly publish an Unclaimed Moneys List.
- We have six offices around New Zealand.
- We hold nearly 600 meetings with owners each year.
- The Māori Trustee can be appointed to administer land through the Māori Land Court, or by the request of owners or Trustees.
- One of the properties administered by Māori Trustee, Hereheretau Station, was a finalist in the Ahuwhenua BNZ Māori Excellence in Farming Award 2009.