Manu Korihi News for 2 April 2012

Whangarei's Child Poverty Action Group says the number of hungry children in the community is a scandal; An iwi based at the foot of Mount Ruapehu has called in the police, saying its office in Ohakune was targeted in retaliation to its protest against a car rally; Hundreds of mourners have passed through Hinepare Marae in Rangitukia near Tikitiki on the East Coast north of Gisborne today, to pay their final respects to Dr Hone Kaa; A new chair of the Waikato-Tainui executive has been appointed.