Te Manu Korihi News for 9 May 2013

The Government is putting aside millions of dollars in next week's budget to create more than two thousand additional places in its Maori and Pasifika trades training schemes; The Electoral Commission is urging anyone not yet enrolled to vote in the eastern Maori electorate of Ikaroa-Rawhiti to sign up before a by-election in June; A university professor specialising in public health says not enough is being done in New Zealand to get people up and moving, even though a lack physical activity is just as dangerous as smoking.