Manu Korihi News for 6 August 2012

The Minister of Maori Affairs, Pita Sharples, will host a hui on water rights today; An iwi says changes being made to planned Treaty settlement legislation covering Hauturu-Little Barrier island in the Hauraki Gulf is like putting icing sugar on arsenic; An Auckland college has dropped a pioneering traditional Maori healing programme from a bachelor degree after less than a year of offering it; Ngai Tahu says tribal members in Queensland have grouped together to form a tribal branch in the Australian state, which will also help keep them abreast of issues happening back home.