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• Submissions open for Lowburn Valley tenure review

  The public is invited to have their say on the future of Lowburn Valley, a Crown pastoral lease in the South Island high country.
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  • Crown property

• Spread the word, not the weed!

  Boaties and visitors to Central Otago lakes are once again being asked to Check Clean and Dry all the gear they use in lakes and rivers as the summer season begins.
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  • Crown property

• Pānui - November 2021

  As November wraps up, we’ve welcomed in changes to the regime that will streamline and modernise processes for our consent applicants and their advisors. In this issue:
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  • Overseas investment

• Help us build a better website

  We’re upgrading our website to make it as customer-friendly as possible.
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  • Corporate

• 820 place name decisions announced

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced 820 place name decisions. These include four official place names in the Darran Mountains, Fiordland National Park:
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  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• NZGB Secretary Wendy Shaw recognised at Public Service Day Awards

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board’s Wendy Shaw has been recognised at the Te Rā Ratonga Tūmatanui - Public Service Day Awards.
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  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Whangārei suburb Kamo now Te Kamo

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board announces today that the Whangārei suburb of Kamo has been renamed Te Kamo.
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  • Place naming

• Twenty years of weed control paying off at Lake Wānaka

  Twenty years of dedicated effort and community support is finally paying off in the fight to clear Lake Wānaka of the invasive lakeweed lagorosiphon.
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  • Crown property

• Survey and Title fees review consultation opens

  Consultation opens today on proposals that would see increases to fees charged for survey and property title services.
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  • Land registration
  • Survey

• New names for Auckland railway stations

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board announces seven new names for Auckland railway stations.
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  • Place naming

• Milestone event for trans-Tasman SouthPAN partnership

  Our partnership with Geoscience Australia to develop SouthPAN – a satellite-based positioning system – has marked construction starting on SouthPAN infrastructure with an event in Invercargill.  
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  • Geodetic

• Demolition of the Hinepare Nurses’ Home and Tuakana Annex begins

  Our demolition of the Hinepare Nurses’ Home in Napier – which begins this week (April 26) – will result in about 90 percent of its material being recycled.
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  • Crown property

• Efforts to control lakeweed underway in Central Otago

  Work to tackle an invasive aquatic weed is underway in Lake Wānaka and Lake Dunstan before an influx of visitors this summer.
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  • Crown property

• Proposed name change from Clive River to Te Awa o Mokotūāraro

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa met last week to consider place name proposals, including the proposal to change the name of Clive River in Hawke’s Bay to Te Awa o Mokotūāraro.
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  • Place naming

• Consultation open on farm plan regulation

  Consultation is open on a proposed regulation involving farm plans that aims to improve the consenting process for Crown pastoral leaseholders.
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  • Crown property

• Monitoring climate change from Antarctica

  A team from Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand recently visited Antarctica as part of efforts to better understand climate change and protect important heritage sites.
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  • Survey

• Have your say on how innovative technologies can help protect Aotearoa New Zealand’s biodiversity

  Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and the Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai (DOC) have developed a draft Long-term Insights Briefing and we are seeking your thoughts.
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  • Corporate

• Pīwauwau / rock wren is Bird of the Year 2022

  Congratulations pīwauwau / rock wren – winner of Bird of the Year 2022 and one of the native birds we’re helping through pest and weed control work on Crown lands we manage.  
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  • Crown property

• Toitū Te Whenua LINZ launches new websites

  Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand has upgraded its website to make it easier for people to find information about New Zealand’s whenua (land), moana (sea) and arawai (waterways).
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  • Corporate

• Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill passes third reading

  New legislation to improve the management of Crown pastoral land and end tenure review was passed in Parliament yesterday.
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  • Crown property

• 280,000kg of material salvaged from former hospital

  The demolition of the old Masterton hospital continues to progress at pace with only 9 buildings left to come down.
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  • Crown property

• Pānui - May 2022

  This edition of Pānui includes our top tips for smooth sailing when it comes to fresh or seawater areas, invite you to attend our webinar about the types of real estate transactions that require our consent, and list our recent decision sum
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  • Overseas investment

• Official place names announced, consultation opens for name of Wainuiomata creek

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced decisions from its April hui, including corrections to existing Māori place names and making fifteen undersea feature names official.
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  • Place naming

• LINZ considers Lake Dunstan water park application

  We are considering an application from an Otago business for a recreation permit to continue operating a waterpark on Lake Dunstan this summer.
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  • Crown property

• Getting to the root of farm to forestry conversions

  When it comes to overseas investors converting farmland to forestry, complex foreign investment rules can make it hard to see the forest for the trees.
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  • Overseas investment

• Surplus Crown-owned land - February 2023

  Toitū Te Whenua works with Te Kāhui Whakatau (part of the Office for Māori Crown Relations – Te Arawhiti) to manage surplus Crown properties in the Treaty Settlements Landbank.
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  • Crown property

• Landwrap - February 2023

  Issue 183 In this edition:
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  • Land registration
  • Landonline
  • Survey

• High Court orders civil penalties totalling $130,000 for purchase of sensitive land without consent

  A Korean citizen and his lawyer have been ordered to pay $130,000 in civil penalties, in addition to criminal fines handed down in 2020, after the pair attempted to obstruct the Overseas Investment Office investigation.
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  • Overseas investment

• High Country Matters – July 2022

  A lot has happened since our last update. As most of you will be aware, the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Act received Royal assent on the 17 May. 
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  • Crown property

• Consultation open on Crown pastoral land regulations and standards

  The public is invited to provide feedback on proposed new regulations and standards to better manage 1.2 million hectares of Crown pastoral land in the South Island high country.
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  • Crown property

• Easement application approved for Crown pastoral lease proposed solar array

  An application for an easement on a South Island pastoral lease for the purposes of establishing a solar array has been granted.   
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  • Crown property

• Proposal to correct spelling of Franz Josef town and glacier names

  Consultation is now open for a month on a proposal to correct the spelling of Franz Josef in the names of the village and glacier.
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  • Place naming