Te Manu Korihi for 15 May 2015

New Plymouth voters have rejected the introduction of a MAori ward in a citizens'-initiated referendum on the proposal; Ngati Mutunga on the Chathams Islands has moved a step further to settling its Treaty of Waitangi claims; The Supreme Court has now directed the Crown-agency Landcorp not to proceed with selling farmland in the Bay of Plenty until it's made a decision on hearing the case; Six Maori clay artists are back home from the United States after 10 days of workshops with the indigenous Chinook people.