Te Waonui for week ending Friday 20 April 2018

The Crown has again been accused of rushing to finalise Treaty settlements at the expense of giving iwi a fair hearing, The scattering of human ashes on the stage of the Taite Music Awards has been slammed as thoughtless and disrespectful; The name of a Waiheke Island beer has come under fire for its links to a prominent Ngāpuhi chief and a Far North iwi is backing a controversial peat-mining project which will dig-up 400 hectares of their land.