# Ngāti Whare

Te Whāiti iwi. Treaty settlement in 2013.

**Rohe:** Te Whāiti, Bay of Plenty  
**Post-settlement governance entity:** Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whare

## Treaty settlement
Settled 2008-06-01. Financial redress $12.0M. Given effect by the Central North Island Forest Collective Settlement Act 2008 and Māori Fisheries Act 2004.

**Cultural redress:** CNI Collective Forest Lands Settlement - transfer of nine Crown licensed forests and accumulated rentals; Māori Fisheries Act 2004 settlement with Te Ohu Kaimoana providing crayfish quota (1,526,500 units), paua quota (635,950 units), and fisheries settlement quota (123,699 units)

## Financials (FY ending 2025-06-30)
| Measure | Value (NZD) |
|---|---|
| Total assets | $817k |
| Net assets | $409k |
| Total revenue | $363k |
| Surplus / (deficit) | $-125k |
| Employees | 1 |

10 financial years held, 2016–2025.

## Commercial entities (15)
- **CNI Iwi Holdings Limited** — Forestry/Crown forest licensing, Company (NZ Companies Office 2143200)
- **Goldland Avocado Orchards Limited Partnership** — horticulture / avocado, Limited Partnership (NZ Companies Office 7149814)
- **Goldlands Avocado Orchards Limited Partnership** — horticulture / avocado, Limited Partnership
- **Kakano Investment Limited Partnership** — investment, Limited Partnership
- **Kakano Investments Limited Partnership** — forestry investment, Limited Partnership
- **Mataatua Quota Ace Holdings Company Limited** — fisheries / quota holding, Company
- **Minginui Nursery Limited Partnership** — horticulture / nursery, Limited Partnership
- **New Zealand Wool Dumping (2019) Limited Partnership** — wool processing / recycling, Limited Partnership
- **New Zealand Wool Dumping Group (2019) Limited Partnership** — Wool dumping/compaction, Limited Partnership
- **New Zealand Wool Dumping Group Limited Partnership** — wool processing / recycling, Limited Partnership
- **Ngāti Whare Holdings Limited** — asset holding company, Company
- **Te Puawai o Ngāti Whare Charitable Trust** — Service delivery/Community support, Trust
- **Te Puāwai o Ngāti Whare Charitable Trust** — charitable / community support, Trust
- **Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whare** — governance / charitable, Trust
- **Whare Honey Limited Partnership** — apiary / honey production, Limited Partnership

## Asset portfolio
- financial_investments: $5.1M
- forestry: $23.3M
- fisheries_quota: $2.3M
- tourism: not disclosed
- farming: $487k
- aquaculture: $1.8M
- horticulture: $1.8M
- commercial: $8.6M
- property: $11.4M

## Governance
17 current board members. Names, roles and governance fees are **not** available from this endpoint — iwi people data is deliberately excluded from machine-readable republication for privacy and tikanga reasons.

## Also a registered charity
Te Puawai o Ngati Whare Charitable Trust (CC47028) — annual returns are on the Charities Register.

## Sources
- [Ngāti Whare (official website)](https://www.ngatiwhare.iwi.nz) — The iwi’s own published material, which takes precedence over our reproduction of it.
- [Te Puni Kōkiri — Te Kāhui Māngai](https://www.tkm.govt.nz/) — Official directory of iwi, hapū and marae, and of post-settlement governance entities.
- [Te Arawhiti — Office for Māori Crown Relations](https://www.tearawhiti.govt.nz/te-kahui-whakatau-treaty-settlements/) — Deeds of settlement, Crown apologies and settlement legislation.
- [New Zealand Legislation](https://www.legislation.govt.nz/) — Settlement Acts.
- [Charities Services — Charities Register](https://register.charities.govt.nz/) — Annual returns and financial statements for registered charitable PSGEs.
- [New Zealand Companies Office](https://companies-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz/) — Incorporation, status and directors of iwi-owned companies.

## Citation
IwiData NZ, https://iwidata.co.nz/iwi-entities/ngati-whare

Methodology: https://iwidata.co.nz/iwi-methodology · Data sources and corrections: https://iwidata.co.nz/iwi-data-sources

*Iwi data is a taonga. IwiData republishes information iwi and Crown agencies have already made public, and recognises that authority over Māori data rests with Māori. May contain errors; the iwi’s own published material takes precedence.*