Tribal leadership earns merit
Tribal leadership earns merit
- Mr Bidois, a former Maori Affairs staffer, timber industry worker and three-term Manukau City Councillor, immersed himself in tribal life on his return to Tauranga in 1992, building up social services, representing the iwi in treaty negotiations and leading the push for the return of Mauao to tribal ownership.
- Mr Bidois, a former Maori Affairs staffer, timber industry worker and three-term Manukau City Councillor, immersed himself in tribal life on his return to Tauranga in 1992, building up social services, representing the iwi in treaty negotiations and leading the push for the return of Mauao to tribal ownership.