16 Nov 2011

Manu Korihi News for 16 November 2011

From Morning Report, 8:48 am on 16 November 2011

A central North Island iwi has won its bid for a court hearing if all eight tribes involved in a Treaty deal can't decide how to devide up a huge forestry block; A grandson of one of two Maori carvers, who worked on what's now privately-owned meeting house hopes his hapu can buy it at auction - and finish the work his ancestor started; Auckland's Papakura marae has heard its first Youth Court case under tikanga Maori values; Organisers of the 2012 supreme Maori farming award are hoping for a strong entry from dairy farmers from all over New Zealand.