Manu Korihi News for 23 January 2012

In just over four hours 10.00pm NZ time Monday a ceremony of significance to all Maori in New Zealand, takes place in Paris; A sacred pounamu which spent almost two years on show at Te Papa museum, is now the centre piece at Ngai Tahu Tourism's visitors centre at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu; The Chairperson of a restorative justice group in the Bay of Plenty town of Murupara, says its community programme to deter young people from re-offending started today; A Northland school says it will continue with its unit for senior students, despite the Ministry of Education directing it be shut down.