13 Jul 2012

Manu Korihi News for 13 July 2012

From Checkpoint, 5:46 pm on 13 July 2012

The Governor General has paid tribute to Ngati Tuwharetoa leader Timoti Morehu te Heuheu; Meanwhile mourners in South Taranaki for the tangi of the Patea Maori Club Chairman, are preparing to lift his body from Aotearoa Marae for a burial tomorrow morning; The Maori Council wants to invite Prime Minister John Key to sit down and talk about water rights; After a fifteen year fight Nelson's Maori community is getting ready to open the region's first total Maori language immersion school at dawn tomorrow.