Te Manu Korihi News for 9 November 2012

The Maori trustees of Poroti Springs say they hope to reach an arrangement with an Auckland company trying to set up a water bottling company near Whangarei; Zodiac Holdings says it may be willing to share its water right with tangata whenua; The Crown's selected a number of new areas that could be searched for oil - but there's already opposition from one iwi that calls it resource exploitation; The Ngapuhi leader, Sonny Tau, says the ruckus at the runanga's AGM at the weekend has over-shadowed some real achievements; A Queensland policeman says with the increasing Maori population in the Australian state it is important the police have more officers on the beat who reflect their community.