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PHOTO:\u00a0JOHN SELKIRK\/STUFF\u00a0<\/cite>Andrew Hore during his rugby playing days.<\/strong><\/p>\n Green Rush<\/em>\u00a0– Rich-listers, established farming families and a former All Black are among New Zealand’s top 50 landowners.<\/p>\n Last week,\u00a0RNZ revealed<\/a>\u00a0that the four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies, based on an analysis of Land Information data.<\/p>\n Now we reveal the top 50 private landowners in New Zealand, who own over a million hectares of land between them. New Zealand’s total land area is 26.8m ha.<\/p>\n Nineteen of the individuals or entities on the list are overseas-based owners.<\/p>\n At least 28 per cent of New Zealand’s land is in Crown or other public ownership, while iwi and other M\u0101ori land-holding entities own about 7 per cent. We have compiled the top five public landowners, not including the Crown, and the top five M\u0101ori landholdings.<\/p>\n READ MORE VIA STUFF<\/p>\n