Mother of missing four-year-old clings to hope; Thomas family resigned to Barlow's freedom; Survivors from trawler sinking are on their way to Lyttleton; Te Papa scores European Masters exhibition.
New Zealand Herald
The frantic mother of a missing Gisborne pre-schooler was last night clinging to the hope that her boy was alive. All Jessica Ward knows is that four year old Lucas wandered off from his grandparents home on Tuesday. From there, the trail has gone cold.
A leaked, confidential dossier of Heather Roy's notes for the ACT meeting that dumped her as deputy leader reveals the extent of the rift between herself and Rodney Hide.
Dominion Post
The family of slain businessmen Gene and Eugene Thomas are resigned to John Barlow walking free from prison, 16 years after he was convicted of their murders. Barlow is still maintaining his innocence and his family says he will continue fighting to have his convictions overturned.
Thousands of secondary school teachers are preparing to strike after rejecting the Government's pay offer.
Te Papa has scored an exhibition of one of the world's great art collections. The European Masters collection is said to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and includes works by Picasso and van Gogh.
The Press
Survivors from the sinking of a trawler in the Southern Ocean are on their way to Lyttleton .. but the cause of the disaster remains a mystery. The search for the missing South Korean master and two Indonesian crew from the Oyang 70 has been suspended.
A North Canterbury firefighter broke down at an inquest yesterday as he told of leaving a woman he believed was dead inside a burning house.
Otago Daily Times
The paper leads with the Oyang 70 sinking and says questions are being asked why it capsized in favourable weather. However the successful rescue of 45 crew is being described as miraculous.
The managing director of Animated Research Limited, Ian Taylor, has some ambitious plans he believes will turn Dunedin into the world's leading sports analysis centre.
