Manu Korihi News for 3 February 2012

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry says a key issue for the government to consider in the next three years, is improving the capability of Maori interests in the primary sector; The government has been told it needs to increase the rate of Treaty settlement legislation going through Parliament; For the second year in a row the major Waitangi Day celebrations in Hawke's Bay will be split between two venues; The condition of the Waituna Lagoon, once an important food resource for Ngai Tahu people in Southland, is one of the local issues to be discussed with government ministers on Waitangi day.