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The most expensive Treaty of Waitangi settlement in New Zealand's history, worth $500 million, was signed at parliament on Wednesday.

Around 800 Maori from across the central North Island crammed into parliament to watch the emotional handover, which has been 20 years in the making.

Negotiations have been described as tortuous and often fraught. They have also cost taxpayers around $30 million.

For some, the signing was the outcome of a 20 year dream.<

Maori have closed access to the upper reaches of the Tongariro River in an effort to minimise the risk of contamination from the invasive algae didymo.

Dead cells of the algae, commonly known as rocksnot, were found last month in water samples taken from the Tongariro, Whakapapa, Mangatepopo and Whanganui Rivers as part of Genesis Energy's monthly water quality sampling programme.

Biosecurity experts are urgently carrying out more tests for fear that didymo is now in North Island rivers.

TOI AKE TUWHARETOA MAORI ART & DESIGN EXPO

TOI AKE TUWHARETOA MAORI ART & DESIGN EXPO

Minister for the Environment David Benson-Pope officially launched a multimillion-dollar project to protect Lake Taupo at a signing ceremony on Friday.

Delegates from local, regional and central government, as well representatives from Ngati Tuwharetoa, signed the contract, officially passing the $81.5 million fund over to the Lake Taupo Protection Trust - the group responsible for administering the fund.

Not many New Zealanders have served on three school boards at the same time – but the incoming president of the New Zealand School Trustees Association is one of them.

Taupo woman Lorraine Kerr takes over as president of NZSTA in October and is the first Maori woman president of the association.

Lorraine Kerr followed her children through their schooling by sitting on the boards of their primary, intermediate and secondary schools. She has served as a school trustee since boards of trustees began under the Tomorrow’s Schools reforms in 1989.

But when her children left school, Lorraine Kerr stayed on and she has continued to contribute to children’s education.

Tumu te Heuheu (Te Heuheu Tukino VIII), Paramount Chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa, has been named the new Chair of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today.

The World Heritage Committee has been meeting in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, since 8 July for its 30th Ordinary Session. Tumu te Heuheu's appointment was announced at the completion of this Session today.

"I congratulate Tumu te Heuheu on this momentous achievement," Helen Clark said.

"The UNESCO World Heritage Committee is an extremely important international conservation organisation. It chooses, funds and monitors the caring of World Heritage Areas, some of the planet's most special places."