28 Mar 2012

Manu Korihi News for 28 March 2012

From Morning Report, 6:27 am on 28 March 2012

A Waikato-Tainui kuia, is saddened by the death of the Tongan King, George Tupou, the fifth, but she welcomes the new king Tupou the sixth; The mayor of Ruapehu District Council has stepped in to stop a car rally on Mount Ruapehu, after criticism from a local tribe; The Independent Constitutional Transformation Working Group has set up a subsidiary group for rangatahi - because it believes the people of the future will lead consitutional change; Members of several groups planning to take action on dirty rivers say they're sad that Northland's river patrol man Millan Ruka has chosen to distance himself from them.