Te Manu Korihi News for 23 January 2012

The National Urban Maori Authority has signalled it has plans to run New Zealand's first ever national Maori radio station; A lawyer representing the family of James Takamore, who took his body from his wife and children says the whanau has accepted the Supreme Court's ruling to allow his partner to exhume his body; A Palmerston North tribe has appealed to its local MP to intervene and help stop the Crown settling a Treaty claim with a local urban authority; The Treaty Negotiator for Te Atiawa in Taranaki says once its $88 million settlement with the Crown is completed this year, the tribe will put into place a 25 year development plan for its people.