Morning Report for Tuesday 13 October 2015

8:55 AM.The Queen has intervened to settle a dispute between two families over the inheritance of a prestigious title. Audio

8:45 AM.Today marks the 40th anniversary of the month-long Maori land march arriving at parliament in Wellington; Treaty settlement expectations will be on the agenda when the Maniapoto Maori Trust Board… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Archaic, redundant or just plain quirky laws on New Zealand's statute books dating back to 1879 are set for the chopping block. Audio

8:39 AM.Singer Jenny Morris, who first found fame with  in New Zealand then sang with INXS before having a successful solo career in Australia. Audio

8:31 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:28 AM.People in the Tararua district are being warned to expect more aftershocks following last night's 5.8 magnitude quake. Audio

8:25 AM.Firefighters are trying to contain a large fire which has engulfed a block of eight classrooms at a school in south Taranaki. Audio

8:21 AM.Vanuatu's President Baldwin Lonsdale is grappling with a constitutional crisis after returning from an overseas trip to find the acting President had pardoned himself and 13 MPs of corruption. Audio

8:17 AM.Labour says a Crown company set up to make health savings was just a vanity project for a previous Minister of Health. Audio

8:13 AM.A New Zealand detainee could be saved almost a year on the Christmas Island detention centre. Audio

8:10 AM.The Prime Minister says Government agencies have been working behind the scenes to prepare for the deportation of criminals from Australia. Audio

8:07 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:54 AM.The Labour Party says the health sector razor gang known as HBL was doomed to fail from the start. Audio

7:51 AM.State housing tenants from across the country are heading to parliament today, protesting against the Government's plans to sell off state houses. Audio

7:47 AM.Federated Farmers say New Zealand is still open for international business even though a Chinese dairy farm investor has pulled out of a deal to buy a cluster of Northland farms. Audio

7:42 AM.Auckland's only Maori boarding school, Hato Petera, has closed its junior boarding houses. Audio

7:39 AM.The Minnesota dentist who shot and killed Cecil the Lion, in July, Walter Palmer, won't face charges in the beloved big cat's death. Audio

7:33 AM.Crowds in Ankara have been laying flowers to honour the victims of the weekend's double suicide bombing. Audio

7:24 AM.The Labour Leader Andrew Little says his party is not in a position to oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership deal, but a Labour government would flout some of its terms. Audio

7:20 AM.The tiny Wairarapa town of Pongaroa was rocking and rolling last night with a five point eight magnitude earthquake hitting just after 9 o'clock. Audio

7:17 AM.The head of the panel that is carrying out a review of Child, Youth and Family is being paid two-thousand dollars a day by the Government. Audio

7:10 AM.Lou Vincent has described as harrowing the moment he says Chris Cairns held a cricket bat over his head, telling him he had cost him millions for failing to underperform in the Indian Cricket league.

7:07 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:58 AM.American stocks are open although most other parts of the financial sector are closed for the Columbus day holiday. Audio

6:55 AM.A new peer to peer lender has the big banks in its sights for a share of the credit market, as it counts down to opening. Audio

6:53 AM.The lending sector is becoming increasingly heavily populated - what with crowd funding, peer to peer lending, and angel investing along with the more traditional banking and finance companies. Audio

6:52 AM.The Marlborough Electric Lines Company is not ruling out buying more non core assets with its growing pile of cash. Audio

6:51 AM.Meanwhile, an economist says the Reserve Bank has further room to flex its muscles to try and cool the Auckland housing market. Audio

6:49 AM.The latest data from the Real Estate Institute offers little evidence the housing market is responding to measures by the government and the Reseve Bank to rein it in. Audio

6:44 AM.The prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu says the authorities are close to identifying one of the two suicide bombers who attacked a peace rally on Saturday killing almost 100 people. Audio

6:29 AM.Today marks the 40th anniversary of the month-long Maori land march arriving at parliament in Wellington; One of the country's largest iwi is to begin consultations that will consider how a future… Read more Audio

6:25 AM.News from the rural and farming sectors. Audio

6:22 AM.The latest from the Pacific region. Audio

6:17 AM.The Health Minister, Jonathan Coleman, says he made the right decision to wind down the contentious HBL cost-saving agency. Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Lou Vincent takes the stand at Chris Cairns' perjury trial. The Government admits it's paying the head of the panel reviewing Child Youth and Family twice the normal fee and the aftershocks continue… Read more Audio