Te Manu Korihi News for Tuesday 24 June 2014

A Ngati Porou woman is the winner of the inaugural Maori Language Award for the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults; Five Maori MP have been named in the top 20 of Labour Party's new list for the coming election; A primary school in the Far North has become the first kura in the region to make the switch to solar power; Te Tai Hauauru MP Tariana Turia says she's happy her people will see a settlement of the Whanganui river before her political career ends.