12 Aug 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 12 August 2013

From Checkpoint, 6:46 pm on 12 August 2013

The majority of staff at the country's only kaupapa Maori intellectual disability residential care provider, criticised in a Ministry of Health Report, have kept their jobs;An advocacy body for Maori Housing doesn't think the Governments plans to make it easier for people to buy their first home will benefit Maori;More young Maori will be able to start careers in the agricultural sector following a scholarship created by a major bank and a Maori trust;The first sod has been turned and the ground blessed for construction to begin on a new war museum in Gisborne - in commemoration to the Maori Battalion's C Company.