19 May 2015

Te Manu Korihi News for 19 May 2015

From Te Manu Korihi, 8:53 am on 19 May 2015

Auckland's Maunga Authority says iwi are making progress in protecting their taonga - the city's tihi - after receiving a large funding boost; A Maori internet working group, Nga Pu Waea, says it will be urging the Government to be more strategic about rolling out fibre optic broadband to marae in rural areas; More than one hundred marae in Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa are to be renovated to cope with the thousands of manuhiri expected at the next Te Matatini kapa haka festival; The world of business is set to change when a new Maori business development masters programme is taken up by universities nation-wide in 2017.