Manu Korihi News for 13 July 2011

The number of properties set aside for Treaty settlements is increasing, but the Government has no more money to keep them all in good condition; The Minister of Maori Affairs, Pita Sharples, is defending comments he made during a televised debate this week that Maori have special measures so those lagging behind can catch up; A delay in a deed of settlement has held up the moving of an ancestral meeting house from Te Papa Tongarewa back to Poverty Bay.