Manu Korihi News for 1 May 2012

The Waitangi Tribunal says it's overloaded with work due to an unprecedented increase in applications for urgent hearings; The former Maori Party MP, Rahui Katene, says she's helped revive the Maori Council in Porirua; A Kohanga campaigner says a treaty of Waitangi claim calling for Maori pre-schools to become self-managed will set a precedent for a claim by kura kaupapa; The Independent Maori Statutory Board is going on the road in Auckland from today - finding out what mana whenua think the local council should do for them.