Manu Korihi News for 3 April 2012

The veteran northern land rights camapigner - Ngati Wai leader Lally Haddon - is defending his hapu's right to reach a deal with the crown over Hauturu - Little Barrier Island; Mourners at the tangi for the late Dr Hone Kaa will be burying him just before midday today at his family urupa in Rangitukia on the East Coast; A report on hunger in Whangarei has found that the government's Fruit in Schools programme has had a dramatic effect in reducing the incidence of school sores; The new chairperson of the Waikato-Tainui executive, Tom Roa, says the tribe owes so much to the former head, Tukoroirangi Morgan.