25 Feb 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 25 February 2013

From Checkpoint, 6:49 pm on 25 February 2013

The founding editor and publisher of an online Maori magazine is appalled by the attitude of some advertising agencies - for underestimating the technical ability of young Maori when they moved to a digital format; An Auckland urban authority says it will keep on fighting for what whanau are entitled to after the Crown axed a valuable welfare contract last year; The Maori Fisheries Trust says media driven hysteria has caused the Government to go beyond recommendations made following an inquiry into working conditions on foreign fishing boats working in New Zealand waters; The Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust says it's making progress in efforts to raise half a million dollars to secure the long term future of the writer's residence - and will receive proceeds from an art auction in Auckland next month.