Te Manu Korihi News for 26 June 2014

A Northland school has delayed spending money on digital technology, and is instead diverting its funds to a successful Maori teaching programme; The Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is keeping his pre-election promise to live in an Aboriginal community; A Far North iwi has taken over the lease for land it will take ownership of in a Treaty of Waitangi settlement next year; A Wairarapa-based agricultural training school says a pilot farming programme for Maori college students will earn them NCEA credits thanks to government funding.