Manu Korihi News for 10 April 2012

The Waiariki MP, Te Ururoa Flavell, says there were fine tributes paid to Sir Peter Tapsell at his tangi today in Bay of Plenty; Ngati Ranginui has become the first of three iwi in the Tauranga region, to initial a deed of settlement with the Crown over historical Treaty grievances; The Government may include the ancestral mountain of the Ngati Manawa iwi in Bay of Plenty, in Treaty talks it's having with Ngai Tuhoe over Te Urewera National Park; The chairperson of Rotorua based Te Arawa Lakes Trust, Toby Curtis, says organisations within Te Arawa are considering the idea of establishing a so called tribal parliament.