Morning Report

Captain Kane Williamson says patience and application at the crease was key to New Zealand's innings and 65-run win over England in the first test at Bay Oval.

The government is abandoning a controversial goal to settle all historical treaty claims by next year.

Treaty negotiations Minister Andrew Little has conceded the Crown will miss the deadline, as 18 hapu and iwi groups swap negotiations, for litigation.

RNZ Māori news correspondent Leigh-Marama McLachlan reports.

England folded on the final day of the first cricket test in Mt Maunganui, losing seven wickets to hand New Zealand victory by an innings and 65 runs.

The Black Caps' pace bowler Neil Wagner claimed his fourth and fifth wickets in quick succession to wrap up the England innings ending on 5-for-44.

Black Caps head coach Gary Stead speaks to Corin Dann.

Former Prime Ministers Sir John Key and Helen Clark have backed plans to move Auckland's port, but current Government ministers are more hesitant.

Chris Hipkins, standing for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in her usual Tuesday morning slot, told Morning Report there's a lot of work to be done before moving the port could be a done deal.

"This is a very big decision and we have to carefully work through all of the economic impacts of that, all the environmental impacts of that, the flow on consequences to other areas and other parts of the economy."

The country's favourite four-million-year-old mudstone attractions are getting some unwanted attention.

People are carving names into the Moeraki boulders and leaving behind their rubbish, upsetting locals who are calling for better management of the increasingly popular site.

Katie Todd reports.

The Auckland Council is taking its first prosecution against a member of the public for walking on tracks in the Waitakere Ranges that are closed to prevent the spread of Kauri dieback.

The bushwalker is facing three charges after entering a closed track three times over the last five months.

Phil Goff is mayor of Auckland.

Ngāti Kahungunu says they've been tricked into supporting a Provincial Growth Funded water project they vehemently oppose.

Hawke's Bay Regional Council was awarded more than $30 million from the fund for water security projects in August, after the region's leaders signed a letter of support for the package.

But the iwi says the letter it signed gave no indication those projects included controversial technologies like river augmentation, which it does not support.

RNZ Hawke's Bay reporter Anusha Bradley.

The Hepatitis Foundation clocked up more than $128,000 dollars in travel expenses for its board chair in just over two years, was putting on "lavish'' dinners and racking up thousands of dollars on credit cards with no record of what the money was being spent on.

While an investigation by the Charities Services concluded excessive expenses and gross mismanagement may have occurred, the Foundation has told RNZ there is no evidence of any wrongdoing.

In the six years leading up to when the inquiry started in 2016, the Foundation received about $10 million from the government to help care for people with Hepatitis B or C.

RNZ political reporter Jo Moir has been looking into the details.

Captain Kane Williamson says patience and application at the crease was key to New Zealand's innings and 65-run win over England in the first test at Bay Oval.

News from the business sector, including a market report.