12 Feb 2014

Te Manu Korihi News for 12 February 2014

From Checkpoint, 5:48 pm on 12 February 2014

A trans-Tasman row has erupted over Maori totem poles; Maori-Indians struggling to be accepted by their own community will attend the second Maori-Indian hui in Rotorua to discuss the challenges of dual ethnicity; Two Waikato iwi are pushing to have their Deeds of Settlement passed into law by the elections; A horticulture training scheme in the Hawke's Bay is aiming to get people off the dole and into permanent work; Former Rotorua Tachikawa sawmill workers, many of them Maori, are to collect another payout from the firm's receiver, KordaMentha.