Our Treaty Settlement
Understand the settlement. Have your say.
Ngai Tai and the Crown have initialled Ngakingaki Te Whenua, our Deed of Settlement. Explore what it means for uri, read the key documents, and follow what happens next.
Ngaitai Iwi Authority
The governing body of Ngai Tai, established in 1988 and accountable to the iwi.
The Ngaitai Iwi Authority was originally established under a Trust Deed on the 3rd of October 1988 (“the original Trust Deed”).
Monthly Pānui
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As a result of a hui at Torere Marae on the 26th of November 1987, the iwi of Ngai Tai agreed to establish a body to operate under the mana of the iwi to advance the wellbeing of the iwi, socially, economically and culturally, which includes the scope for historical Treaty settlement negotiations with the Crown.
Registered as a Charitable Trust in October 1988 and then registered with the Charities Commission in 2008 and re-registered again in 2023, Ngaitai Iwi Authority is administered by the Board of Trustees who are accountable to Ngai Tai Iwi. There are seven Trustees on the Board. The Board exercises strategic Governance over the Ngaitai lwi Authority and its asset holding companies and subsidiaries.