27 Jul 2011

Manu Korihi News for 27 July 2011

From Checkpoint, 6:47 pm on 27 July 2011

Tributes are being paid to the national president of the Maori Women's Welfare League, Meagan Joe, who has died at the age of 58; The head of a mental health service in Rotorua says an idea to bury those who take their own lives at the front or outside a cemetery would bring shame to their families; Eel stocks are slowly recovering in the Whanganui River after up to 40 of them died in oxygen-starved water.