Te Manu Korihi News for 15 November 2013

The chair of Te Runanga o Ngapuhi, Sonny Tau, says it's unlikely to support the move to have one council ruling Northland unless Maori are given more say in it; A Ngati Hau descendent is challenging the way government reaches treaty settlements saying they're achieved by breaching the Treaty of Waitangi; The Maori Blind Society is encouraging visually-abled rangatahi who can speak Maori to help provide visual descriptions for popular tv programmes; Six-hundred people are attending this year's Maori Language Week Awards in Gisborne.