Maori Affairs – Leap Twins – F16s – Gavin Dash – Super Fleeze – Hawkesby – Emergency Mistake – Inside Political
Headlines – Editorial: English Language
MAORI AFFAIRS: The Dominion leads today with a report that the government will cut bonus payments to state sector bosses
if they do not meet objectives for Maori development, Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday;
LEAP TWINS: The front-page photo shows two eight-year-old twins, Annette Hubbard and Rose Hubbard-Waitere, born in 1968,
celebrating their birthday on leap day yesterday.
Also on the front page:
- F16S: a report that Prime Minister Helen Clark has been told that the US will not charge much if she cancels the F16
fighter jet contract it negotiated with the previous government;
- GAVIN DASH: a report that police investigating the disappearance of student Gavin Dash have increased the inquiry team
for a second time and begun searching Wellington bush and farmland for his possessions;
- SUPER FLEECE: a report that a courtly octogenarian from the Southern Alps has headed off the Australians to win what
is shaping up to be one the the fashion world’s most coveted trophies – the Loro Piana World Challenge Trophy for the
finest merino wool on the globe;
- HAWKESBY: a report that the fallout from Television New Zealand’s sacking of John Hawkesby continued yesterday with
TV3 filing a High Court claim seeking up to $4 million from TVNZ;
- EMERGENCY MISTAKE: a report that emergency services were shocked yesterday by a tourist operator who drove a man with
a broken neck to hospital by four-wheel drive vehicle and car rather than call 111.
Inside Political Headlines:
- PM expects Aussies to take soft line over F16s;
- Clarks popularity hits all time high in polls;
- British support for spy network;
- King rejects timeframe trouble claim;
- Budget Policy Statement next week;
- IRD medical file request “justified”;
- Amputee service complaint upheld;
- Burton calls for tourism strategy;
- Gene=food inquiry countdown.
EDITORIAL - ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Falling standards of English language usage bemoaned.