Advisors & Consultants

The Ministry of Maori Development Act 1991 established Te Puni Kokiri, the Ministry of Maori Development in 1992. Currently, Te Puni Kokiri’s work focuses on providing high quality policy advice to Government and other agencies. Recently it has also begun providing services to assist Maori achieve their development aims.

Te Ohu Kaimoana is a statutory organisation dedicated to future advancement of M?ori interests in the marine environment. Its role is to allocate to mandated iwi organisations fisheries assets held in trust through the 1989 and 1992 M?ori Commercial Fisheries Settlement and provide an advisory service to its iwi constituents.

Te Arahanga O Nga Iwi provides services to Maori wishing to develop a new business idea or improve their existing business or community organisation.

Omeka Public Relations is a leading public relations and communications company that operates in Australasia and Asia. Based in New Zealand with a mixture of local and overseas clients, Omeka Public Relations provides strategic communications, public relations and media management solutions.

Lake Taupo Funds Limited (LTF Ltd) is a Maori investment company providing investment services to Maori organisations, institutions, hapu, iwi, and whanau throughout Aotearoa. LTF Ltd was incorporated in January 1996 with the blessing of the late Paramount Chief Ta Hepi Te Heuheu; the company is 100% Maori-owned by the Lake Taupo Forest Trust of Ngati Tuwharetoa.

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is responsible for providing New Zealand's authoritative land and seabed information. It is accountable through its Chief Executive to the Minister for Land Information. This is a broad outline of our responsibilities. Land Titles LINZ authorises and keeps a register of changes in rights to freehold land. This includes creating new titles, recording changes of ownership or mortgages and providing copies of these records. LINZ's system gives an accurate and up-to-date picture of the ownership of freehold land. This lessens the risk to the State guarantee of title and interests in land. Titles products and services are provided via the Internet (for Landonline subscribers) and through LINZ's five Processing Centres.

Building capacity of Maori, Pacific and mainstream organisations to enable them to contribute effectively and meaningfully, to the development of Maori and Pacific communities.