Manu Korihi News for 14 May 2012

The Maori Council says it's lined up some of the best researchers in the world for its Waitangi Tribunal hearing over freshwater and the sell-off of stakes in some state owned assets; Trustees of a Maori land block in Hawke's Bay have failed in their attempt to hire the convicted fraudster Donna Awatere Huata as a senior executive; A Maori housing development in the Far North is set to transform families - and the concept of social housing.