Manu Korihi News for 13 June 2012

The government is being accused of mistreating Maori by not holding widespread consultation with iwi about plans to relocate the country's founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi; A Kaitaia pharmacist says the Maori GP who's resigned from the local iwi health provider is highly regarded by other health professionals in the region; An urgent hearing of the Waitangi Tribunal is currently underway to consider a claim from a Wellington iwi that the Crown has breached Treaty principals by offering lower North Island tribe Ngati Toa property in the capital as part of its Treaty settlement; Two studies to find ways of reducing smoking among Maori have received about 750 thousand dollars in funding.