8 Mar 2012

Manu Korihi News for 8 March 2012

From Morning Report, 6:27 am on 8 March 2012

The Waitangi Tribunal has set down next Tuesday to hear why the Maori Council's claim on water should be heard under urgency; An Auckland community board says unless Parliament removes a block of land from a Treaty Settlement Bill, a grievance will be re-ignited which locals thought had been settled long ago; The Council of Trade Unions plans to tackle tribes over why the fishing industry doesn't employ more Maori; A Waikato University doctoral student is researching the recovery time for kaimoana in the Bay of Plenty, following contamination from the Rena oil spill.