Pay cut for two-minute silence; former Hanover boss says he can't live on $1000 a week; death of elderly pair blamed on quake stress.
NZ Herald
Staff at a North Island freezing works had their pay cut for the official two minute silence to remember the Pike River mine disaster, the paper reports. Workers at the Silver Fern Farms Te Aroha plant are upset they lost two cattle each from their daily quota after downing tools.
Brooke Thompson, 16, was killed when the 1998 BMW in which she was travelling hit a tree in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The east Auckland high school student became the third teenager to die in a car crash this week.
Dominion Post
Former Hanover Finance chief Mark Hotchin is reported as saying he can't live on $1000 a week. That's the amount the Securities Commission will allow him, after getting a High Court order freezing all his New Zealand assets. Hotchin's lawyer Bruce Stewart says his client is supporting seven people and $1000 isn't enough.
The sudden deaths of two long-time Kaiapoi residents are being blamed on post-earthquake stress and the fear their damaged house would probably be demolished in the New Year. Family members say the brother and sister, believed to be in their 80s, could not handle the thought of losing their home.
There's ongoing coverage of waiting times for Capital and Coast cancer patients who haven't been able to see a chemotherapy specialist.
The Press
The brother of a murdered Christchurch prostitute says the net is closing on whoever is responsible and they should give themselves up.
Children at St Pauls School are pictured celebrating the start of their summer holidays after what has been a trying year for the students, whose school was badly damaged by the September earthquake.
Otago Daily Times
Dunedin public ticket sales for the 2011 Rugby World Cup are the highest of the provincial centres, except Hamilton.
