Manu Korihi News for 19 July 2011

The man who laid a police complaint against the head of the Waikato Tainui parliament, Tania Martin, denies he did so out of spite; The Maori Party's justice spokesperson, Rahui Katene, says Crown Law should explain why it advised the police not to prosecute an officer who'd been texting before a fatal crash; South Taranaki's Ngaruahine iwi has joined neighbouring Ngati Ruanui in rejecting threatened health cuts in the south of the region.