Manu Korihi News for 14 June 2012

Whanau Ora is being highly praised by the top-ranking Maori police officer, who says the policy is helping to get young Maori offenders back on the right track; The Department of Conservation says its decision to terminate a family's tenancy of a property in the Coromandel isn't a land ownership dispute; A group of scientists are digging to the bottom of the hangi pit to find out why the Earth's magnetic field has changed over the centuries - which is important to navigation; The Ministry of Culture and Heritage says Maori artefacts and taonga could be unearthed in Christchurch during the rebuild.