Te Manu Korihi News for 1 March 2013

Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board hopes the new independent advisor, Sir Michael Cullen, will work quickly to implement changes to Kohanga Reo; A treasured building that once housed a Waikato tribal parliament is about to come back to life; A doctoral student at Te Whare Wanganga o Awanuiarangi in Whakatane, has decided to focus her work on kaitiakitanga, and the impact which the grounding of the container ship Rena has had on Maori communities in Bay of Plenty; The outgoing editor of a Maori lifestyle magazine hopes other people will take up the intiative and keep the publication alive after she retires soon.