Manu Korihi News for 11 November 2011

A Government department says it's leaving it to Maori to select what sort of homes they want to live in - instead of decisions being made by "officials stuck in ivory towers"; The fishing company, Sealord, says the negative publicity surrounding foreign charter vessels prompted it to employ company observers aboard some of its trawlers; People living in the Lower Hutt suburb of Pomare say their situation is a warning for all other New Zealanders living in state housing; A researcher into Maori tourism says there is more to indigenous tour guiding than most people would realise.