Tagata o te Moana. 2009-09-19

Tagata o te Moana is a weekly round up of news from the Pacific from Radio New Zealand International, broadcast on Radio New Zealand National on Saturdays at 5.30pm. This week's edition is presented by Don Wiseman and the items are:

Maternal mortality in Pacific countries is on the agenda at a parliamentary open hearing in Wellington on Monday;
Health officials in Papua New Guinea believe a public information programme has reined in disease outbreaks that have claimed dozens of lives;
Tokelau wants to know what's going on with the dedicated shipping service it was first promised by the New Zealand Government years ago;
France's Senate decides not to lift the immunity of French Polynesia's Gaston Flosse as a corruption probe continues;
Five pro-democracy MPs in Tonga are cleared of sedition conspiracy charges;
The Vanuatu Teachers Union says most of the reforms associated with a revised curriculum are good but the government needs to re-think its policy on language;
The new lands commissioner in Solomon Islands laments the level of corruption in her office; The Māori King makes his first official visit to the Cook Islands.