Manu Korihi News for 16 November 2011

A central North Island iwi has won its bid for a court hearing if all eight tribes involved in a Treaty deal can't decide how to divide up a huge forestry block; A grandson of one of two Maori carvers, who worked on what's now a privately-owned meeting house, hopes his hapu can buy it and finish the work his ancestor started; Auckland's Papakura marae has heard its first Youth Court case under tikanga Maori values; Entries are now open for the 2012 supreme Maori farming award.