18 Mar 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 18 March 2013

From Checkpoint, 5:49 pm on 18 March 2013

A child health expert is urging Maori communities to consider what more they can do to provide safe sleeping situations for young babies; Meanwhile, an Auckland regional Maori health provider is encouraging whanau to provide better care for babies; A petition has been drawn up to call for a temporary ban on the commercial fishing of longfin tuna, or eels; An iwi of Te Arawa, Tuhourangi, is aiming to start building a new tourist attraction on the tribe's home turf near Mount Tarawera by the end of the year.