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• 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

• LINZ seeks Registrations of Interest for management of property portfolio

  Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is seeking Registrations of Interest from suppliers to help manage its property portfolio.
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  • Crown property

• Pānui - July 2022

  A big focus for our team is to continually review our processes and guidance to ensure we’re making things as easy as possible for potential overseas investors.
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  • Overseas investment

• Geographic Board opens consultation on proposed railway station names south of Auckland

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has opened public consultation on proposed names for three new railway stations around Drury, south of Auckland. The proposed names are:
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  • Place naming

• Landwrap - August 2022

  In this edition: changes to Section 38 ownership requirements, new interim Landonline naming conventions, removing or modifying land covenants under the Commerce Act 1986 and more.
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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

• Public feedback sought on central Auckland railway station name proposals

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has opened public consultation on proposed names for four central Auckland railway stations.
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  • Place naming

• Pānui - August 2022

  The character and capability of overseas investors are an integral part of consent conditions and you can read more about that in this month’s Pānui.
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  • Overseas investment

• Consultation opens on proposed place names Ryan Creek, Stewart Crags and Stewart Creek

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has opened public consultation on three proposals for official place names.
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  • Place naming

• 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

• Geographic Board celebrates its Māori name

  As part of the 2022 Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori celebrations, the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa is pleased to announce greater prominence to our te reo Māori name.
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  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Partnership to bring world-class positioning services to Australasia

  A major initiative to improve the accuracy of global positioning services was today announced by Land Information Minister Damien O’Connor.
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  • Geodetic

• 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

• Consultation closing on for name of new lake near Wairoa

  Consultation on the name for a new lake on Mangapōike River is closing on 16 May
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  • Place naming

• Agreement reached for Dunstan Downs tenure review

  A tenure review agreement has been reached for high country station Dunstan Downs that will see 99 percent of the Crown pastoral lease become conservation land.
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  • Crown property

• Significant progress at former Barrett St hospital

  Only remnants of the former Barrett St hospital remain after demolition resumed earlier this year.
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  • Crown property

• Survey and Title processing times update

  In late February, we advised stakeholders and Landonline users of delays processing Survey and Title transactions.
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  • Landonline

• Māori interest in surplus Crown-owned land: April 2022

  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
  • Māori and iwi

• Thresholds for Australian investment in New Zealand

  Alternative monetary thresholds for Australian non-Government and Australian Government investments in New Zealand.
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  • Overseas investment

• 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

• North Island range’s original Māori name restored, name change to Omanui / McKinnon Pass on Milford Track

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced a range southwest of Rotorua is now officially named Te Horohoroinga-o-ngā-ringa-o-Kahumatamomoe.
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  • Place naming

• 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

• Pānui - April 2022

  This month’s Pānui discusses the High Court judgment which upheld an earlier decision to grant CDL Land New Zealand Limited consent to buy land near Havelock North for residential development, and includes our recent decision summaries.
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  • Overseas investment

• Pānui - March 2022

  In this edition of Pānui you will find information on the conclusion of an investigation involving the purchase of sensitive land without consent, build-to-rent guidelines, our quarterly consents data and recent decision summaries.
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  • Overseas investment

• Survey and Title processing times – May update

  In late February, we advised stakeholders and Landonline users of delays processing survey and title transactions. Figures for April show Toitū Te Whenua is making good progress bringing survey and title transaction processing times to within 10 working…
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  • Landonline

• LINZ to begin procurement for management of significant property portfolio

  Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) will shortly be going to the market seeking a supplier or suppliers to help manage its significant property portfolio.
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  • Crown property

• Māori interest in surplus Crown-owned land: June 2022

  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

• 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

• Survey seeks feedback from NZ Localities dataset users

  From January 2023 Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) will take on responsibility for managing the NZ Localities dataset.
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  • Crown property

• Landwrap - September 2022

  Utility Location Standard now published The Utility Location Standard is now available from the 
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  • Land registration
  • Landonline
  • Survey

• SouthPAN Early Open Services are now available

  Early Open Services are available now for applications that do not require high reliability.
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  • Geodetic

• Tauranga’s Mount Misery officially changes to Maungatūtū

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board has announced the official name Maungatūtū for a hill 10km south of Tauranga.
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  • Place naming