Te Manu Korihi News for 18 December 2012
The solicitor for the Maori Council, Donna Hall, predicts its bid to debate Maori water rights in the Supreme Court could cost at least a quarter of a million dollars; A Supreme Court has dismissed a claim that it was lawful for a family to take a relative's body from his wife and children in Christchurch, to bury in Bay of Plenty; Ngati Kahungunu iwi is reviewing its 21 year plan to revitalise the speaking of Te Reo Maori from Wairarapa to Northern Hawke's Bay; Three Taranaki iwi are to sign agreements with the Crown which will take them significantly closer towards finalising a Treaty settlement.