AUCKLAND POLLUTION: The Herald leads today with a report that Auckland has become the big smoke in more ways than one:
the country's largest city yesterday received its worst air-pollution report in years.
BIG SNOW: The front-page photo shows an Aucklander on the road to Turoa ski-field yesterday with a snowman.
Also on the front page:
- YOUNG INDIAN WOMAN TO BE DEPORTED: a report that a young Fiji Indian woman is to be deported after Waikato Hospital
told her relatives she had an abortion and they withdrew their sponsorship;
- EMPLOYMENT: a report that up to 40 per cent of the mature labour force will be forced out of full-time work early next
millennium, says a new study conducted by on of New Zealand's leading historians;
- TE REO: a report that providing translations of Maori and English at Parliament would cost less than Work and Income
NZ spent on "flying from A to B and back again," says Maori Affairs Minister Tau Henare.
Inside Political Headlines:
- WINZ workers attack leadership - letter spells out frustration with Rankin;
- Pair (Michael Cullen and Bill English) agree on sums but not the answers;
- Minister attacks Air New Zealand for London lapse;
HOUSING: The editorial discusses the findings of a report into Glen Innes state housing.