24 Jun 2014

Te Manu Korihi News for 24 June 2014

From Checkpoint, 5:49 pm on 24 June 2014

The former board of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Whangaroa is rejecting criticism of the school's governance by a group of parents; A lower North Island iwi leader is supporting a justice reform group, which recommends alternatives to prison sentences for people in trouble with the law; A Taranaki reo researcher predicts that individual communities will determine the language will evolve; Rugby clubs and gyms are reaching out to a Hamilton-based Maori Trust's quit smoking branch to help tangata whenua they know - kick the habit.