Te Manu Korihi News for 22 March 2013

A new Maori Women's Welfare League executive is considering an idea raised by one of its life members regarding the social welfare policy, Whanau Ora; Ngai Tuhoe is due to initial a multi-million dollar Deed of Settlement at Parliament today; The chief executive of Maori Television is happy a bill that will allow it to broadcast after the switch to digital transmission has passed its first reading in Parliament; Maori farmers are working together to adapt to climate change, which they are blaming for the extraordinary dry spell that has plagued rural communities in the North Island for the past three months.