NZ Herald
The paper reports a rugby coach at an exclusive Auckland high school, St Kentigern College, has been suspended for poaching a player from a poorer South Auckland school amid growing concern about rich schools raiding talent from poorer areas.
Prime Minister John Key's decision to pull out of an overseas trade mission in the Middle East to attend the funerals of three Air Force servicemen has been labelled "short-sighted". Cognition Education chief executive John Langley says the decision was not in the long-term business interests of the country.
Dominion Post
A proposed new annual fee to be charged to more than 500,000 New Zealanders with student debt, will net the Government at least $15 million, the paper says. The fee, expected to be charged at about $50 a year, is being floated as part of a package to try to recover the spiralling cost of the student loans scheme.
Telecom has launched an inquiry after a problem was discovered with text messages that mysteriously scrambled. Telecom says the problem is "extremely rare".
The Press
Intensive farming is destroying native plants at the fastest rate since European colonisation, according to Landcare Research's annual report. It cites the Canterbury Plains as one of the worst affected areas.
The Red Cross has had to import 128 tonnes of second-hand clothes from Australia to sell in its New Zealand stores because of poor Kiwi donations.
Otago Daily Times
Some doctors at Dunedin Hospital are being accused of greed over extra elective surgery on Saturdays extra elective surgery on Saturdays. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation organiser says doctors expect "over the top payments".
A powerful new vaccine therapy for colorectal cancer, using harmless viral shells derived from rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus, is likely to emerge from research at the University of Otago, the paper says.
