Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust

You can download an application form for registration to the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust by clicking this link REGISTRATION FORM.pdf

You are eligible to participate in the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust if you meet the following criteria:

Statement of Entitlement
If you believe you are entitled to have an interest by whakapapa in the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust then we encourage you to register on the application form. The Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust includes any person who can whakapapa by direct lie of descent to:

(1) The original beneficiaries of the 27 September 1839 Port Nicholson Block Purchase Deed; or

(2) The persons listed in the Schedule to the Declaration of the Native Land Court in Wellington dated 11 April 1888; or

(3) Other persons who whakapapa to Taranaki Whanui not named in (1) or (2) above but who lived within the Port Nicholson Block, Wellington District as at 6 February 1840.

(4) Adopted persons, and their descendants (blood or whangai) where the adoptive parent(s) can whakapapa to a blood descendant of any of the original beneficiaries set out in (1) to (3) above.