10 May 2012

Manu Korihi News for 10 May 2012

From Morning Report, 8:47 am on 10 May 2012

A Kaitaia Maori GP says extra money in the Budget for rheumatic fever prevention is welcome - but it won't fix the problem as long as children have to scavenge for food from a pig bucket; A Tuhoe leader says it's a priority for the Bay of Plenty tribe to develop a more meaningful relationship with the police than there's ever been; Three Northland iwi are holding a launch in Auckland tomorrow to celebrate completion of the first leg of a 30-million-dollar broadband project; An actor in the Maori adaptation of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, says the classical variation of Te Reo used in the performance provided a challenge for some of the most fluent speakers of Maori.