Manu Korihi News for 18 October 2011

The Council of Christian Social Services is encouraging Maori to make income inequality a general election issue; A Bay of Plenty hapu whose marae is threatened by flooding from the Waikato river, has refused Contact Energy's offer to re-locate to a safe site; The Ministry of Fisheries in Gisborne says it wants to engage more with local communities, particularly Maori, on educating them about daily catch and size limits for harvesting kaimoana.