Te Manu Korihi News for 29 July 2013

The Minister of Finance, Bill English, says Maori economic development is becoming less dependent on the government; A professor of Te Reo Maori at Waikato University says a new course to help business leaders better understand Maori protocol could help them tap in to the Maori economy; A Ngai Tahu woman has made a committed to rebuilding Christchurch - sacrificing a degree course to undertake a trade's training programme; A petition with nearly two-thousand signatures calling for Poverty Bay to be called Turanganui a Kiwa has been delivered to the local District Council.