Manu Korihi News for 3 April 2012

The new chairperson of the Waikato-Tainui executive, Tom Roa, is vowing to stamp out tribal infighting - saying it's not the way forward;The East Coast people of Ngati Porou and the many mourners at his tangi, laid to rest today Dr Hone Kaa at his whanau cemetery in Rangitukia in Te Tai Rawhiti; Plans for a housing development on Mahia Peninsular in Hawke's Bay have been rejected; A Tai Tokerau elder says the longer it rains this autumn - the better for the region's endangered eels.