ARE YOU ENTITLED TO UNCLAIMED MONEYS?

Te Ao Hou, Winter 1954, Page 49

ARE YOU ENTITLED TO UNCLAIMED MONEYS? KO KOE RANEI TETAHI O TE HUNGA E TIKA ANA MANA NGA MONI E TAKOTO NOA NEI Ko te tumanako o Te Kaitiaki Maori he whakarapopoto i nga moni kei te takoto noa, i runga ra i nga whakaritenga a Tekiona 30 o Te Ture Kaitiaki Maori 1953. I whakamaramatia ra i tera putanga o Te Ao Hou, kua whakamanaia te Kaitiaki Maori e tenei wahanga o Te Ture, ana panuitia te whakarapopototanga o nga moni a kaore he tangata e taunaha i aua moni mo te tekau tau neke atu, me utu aua moni tetahi wahanga ki te Tahua Moni Mo Nga Mea Maori a ko te toenga ki etahi o nga Komiti o nga rohe hei awhina i etahi o nga whakaaro Maori. Tera e ahua roa tonu te mahi whakawhaiti haere i te whakarapopototanga o aua moni. I roto o enei marama tata ka timata te putaputa haere ki nga Tari o Te Kooti Whenua Maori nga rarangi o nga moni kei te takoto noa. Ko nga tangata e whakaaro ana kei te ahei ratou ki nga moni penei me haere ratou ki te Tari o Te Kooti Maori e tata ana ki o ratou kainga ki te titiro i aua rarangi moni. Ko te whakaaro nui o te Kaitiaki Maori kia kaua e tukua aua moni kia takoto noa ana mehemea ka taea te whakarato ki te hunga e tika ana ma ratou, a kei te whakapau ia i ona kaha kia awe te whakarapopototia nga rarangi o aua moni a ki te panui me kore e kitea te hunga mana nga moni. Ka kite iho koutou i nga rarangi nei a ka tae mai te awangawanga me haere ki te Tari Maori kei o koutou na rohe. The maori trustee hopes before long to start on the work of preparing and filing lists of unclaimed moneys in accordance with Section 30 of the Maori Trustee Act, 1953. As described in the last issue of Te Ao Hou this section empowers the Maori Trustee after publication of lists and so on, to dispose of moneys unclaimed for ten years or more by paying part of the Maori Purposes Fund, and the remainder to committees in each district for payment to Maori organizations and for Maori purposes. The work involved in preparing lists will be considerable, and it will be a long time before all the moneys concerned can be dealt with. Within a few months the first lists will be filed at Maori Land Courts offices, and from then on there will be further lists at fairly frequent intervals. Persons who think they may be entitled to unclaimed moneys are advised to visit the nearest Court office from time to time to inspect these lists. The Maori Trustee is anxious that moneys should not be dealt with as unclaimed moneys if there is any chance of payment to the persons entitled, and before including in the lists any but very small amounts he is arranging for a thorough check to be made and, so far as staff and time allow, to do whatever can be done to track down and advise people for whom money is held. The place to make enquiries about amounts appearing on any lists published is at the department's office for the district where the moneys are held.