Te Manu Korihi News for 1 March 2013

Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board hopes the new independent advisor, Sir Michael Cullen, will act quickly to implement changes to Kohanga Reo; A treasured building that once housed a Waikato tribal parliament is about to come back to life; A doctoral student at Te Whare Wanganga o Awanuiarangi in Whakatane, has decided to focus her work on the impact which the grounding of the container ship Rena has had on Maori communities in Bay of Plenty; The outgoing editor of a Maori lifestyle magazine hopes other people will take up the intiative and keep the publication alive after she retires soon.