20 Jul 2011

Manu Korihi News for 20 July 2011

From Checkpoint, 5:49 pm on 20 July 2011

The Crown's to apologise to a Poverty Bay iwi for multiple Treaty breaches that include the unjustified use of military force in Gisborne, and the summary executions of prisoners at Ngatapa in 1869; The Northland Labour MP, Kelvin Davis, says the lack of successful bids for oil prospecting off Northland's west coast gives time for more consultation with Maori; A professor's to look at why Maori babies are at a high risk of dying in their sleep; A cycle-trail designer has given a big thumbs-up after test riding a coast-to-coast trail being built in the Far North.