Te Manu Korihi News for 9 May 2013

The Electoral Commission has begun the huge task of organising a by-election in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti electorate; It'll be a week before the results are known of a vote by Ngai Tuhoe members on a Deed of Settlement worth tens of millions of dollars; A professor at Auckland Univesity says the revival of a lost Maori tradition may encourage tangata whenua to take up physical activity; A Maori PhD student at Massey University hopes social networking sites don't replace the marae as a place where iwi, hapu and whanau come together.