Te Manu Korihi News for 30 July 2013

A Ruapehu iwi leader says it's own whanau welfare innovation plan has slashed domestic violence rates by half in its rohe; Lands owned by two Waikato tribes will be better used thanks to agreement by the iwi and Canterbury's Lincoln University; The Maori Party has issued a word of caution to Labour leader, David Shearer, over his party's new housing policy; The author of a book about the extinct giant bird the moa says he's pulled together Maori oral history to describe the iwi relationship to the animal.