Te Manu Korihi News for 26 February 2014

Maori unionist Matt McCarten has been made the new Labour Party Chief of Staff; A long-time environmentalist for Lake Horowhenua says a million dollars isn't enough to clean up one of the country's most polluted lakes; A Maori leadership academy is raising money to send its Ngapuhi cadets to Italy to commemorate the 28th Maori Battalion; A Tainui kaumatua at Te Papa museum says he's greeting the end of Tainui's two-year exhibition this weekend with relief and sadness; A new look to Maori health provision at the top of the South Island is taking shape.