Te Manu Korihi News for 9 October 2013

The Mana Movement says recent poll results in the Waiariki electorate back up its call for a merger between it and the Maori Party; The head of Victoria Maori Wardens in Australia says there's been a significant decline in the number of Maori Wardens in his native home of Northland; A Northland hapu might invest in more farms, after its plans to make money from selling houses were savagely cut back; A Maori group that advises the Environmental Protection Authority is assuring iwi they won't be kept in the dark on oil companies' plans to drill test wells off the coast of New Zealand.