clipped from: www.nzherald.co.nz 
Tuhoe activist Tame Iti and others arrested after the Urewera police raids want evidence to be translated into Maori - and that could mean a depositions hearing could take weeks to complete.
The entire month of September had been set aside for a depositions hearing for Iti and 17 others facing firearms charges in connection with the police raids in different parts of the country last October.
"My clients want to speak in te reo ... they are fluent in English but would like to speak in te reo because they are more fluent in it."