Manu Korihi News for 19 March 2012

Kawerau Intermediate School in the Eastern Bay of Plenty has lodged an application for a High Court Judicial Review to try and save the school from closure; The Hawke's Bay iwi, Ngati Kahungunu, says some children are going to school without lunch - because whanau striking at an Affco meat plant in Wairoa are finding it harder to get by; It's the Crown's turn to give evidence at the inquiry into the running of Maori language pre-schools this week; Auckland Council says a plan to close walking tracks to protect kauri trees is effectively a rahui; Creative New Zealand has announced about a hundred Maori and New Zealand-based Pacific artists will represent Aotearoa alongside 27 other Pacific countries at the Festival of Pacific Arts in July.