Te Manu Korihi News for 5 May 2015

The Auditor General has released a highly critical report about the Maori social welfare initiative Whanau Ora, saying it is confusing, bureaucratic and poorly administered; Tangata whenua are backing a new rates model introduced by the Far North District Council which they say gives multiple-owners of Maori land a fair rates system for the first time; Hundreds of moa bones have been excavated from a site in the central North Island.