Te Manu Korihi News for 27 November 2012

The head of the Waikato-Tainui executive is confronting his accusers - demanding they provide proof that his tribal arm has brought the iwi into disrepute; A Tainui kuia says it's an insult to Maori that a man performed a haka, before abusing a robbing the occupants of a campervan parked in Raglan; A Maori medical leader says the top of the South Island is losing a unique kaupapa Maori health institution, with the closure of Te Rapuora o te Waiharakeke; The supreme winner of the Maori sports awards says it's 'cool' to continue a waka paddling tradition in a modern way.