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The Tūhoe Treaty settlement has sparked a new relationship between the tribe and hunters. The Crown package for the iwi will this week have its third and final reading in the House. Negotiations have included discussions with the Deerstalkers Association, confirming hunters can still set their sights on animals in Te Urewera, a deal the Department of Conservation would not acknowledge in the...

Eco Timber company Abodo Wood owes much of its recent growth to a customer complaint it received in its second year of operation.  The company had been exporting treated pinus radiata to the Pacific  when founder Daniel Gudsell received a call in 2004 from a customer in American Samoa. Children who had been playing on Abodo plywood were admitted to hospital with chronic nose bleeds, believed to be caused by exposure to the wood's...

Police Commissioner Mike Bush will visit the homes of eirht Tuhoe families to personaly apologise for mistakes for police made during the Urewera raids - almost seven years after they...

Tūhoe families wrongly caught up in the raids seven years ago are to finally get a personal apology. Police Commissioner Mike Bush will meet with whānau at the end of this month. Tūhoe chief negotiator Tamati Kruger says while an apology might not be enough for some, he hopes it will help the families and the tribe to move...

Police Commissioner Mike Bush will visit the homes of eight Tuhoe families to personally apologise for mistakes police made during the Urewera raids - almost seven years after they occurred. His visit, due before the end of the month, is expected to take two days. The apology is timed to ensure it does not overshadow the Crown apology next month for historic grievances which forms part of the iwi's Treaty of Waitangi settlement. That will...

The third reading of the Tuhoe-Te Urewera Settlement Bill is confirmed for Thursday. Tuhoe representatives expect this final step will culminiate with the Crown's Apology set for mid-August, this...