20 Feb 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 20 February 2013

From Checkpoint, 5:50 pm on 20 February 2013

A group representing most Maori language medium schools is backing a suggestion to build a third kura kaupapa in Christchurch; A sub tribe's legal claim to a riverbed has today gone to the heart of one of its arguments - that the Crown had a duty to tell tangata whenua what they were buying; The people of Te Arawa have welcomed more than 2-thousand people to Rotorua International Stadium for the biennial national kapa haka festival; Te Arawa Lakes Trust says it fully supports an agreement which will speed up the reduction of nutrients entering Lake Rotorua.