Thursday's headlines: Convicted murderer runs business from prison; Girl saved from crash that killed mother and sister; Passenger describes plane's emergency landing in Blenheim
NZ Herald
The New Zealand Herald leads with the news the Government has scrapped a provision in the foreshore and seabed repeal bill that would have allowed secret deals to be done with iwi to award customary title.
It also reports on rumours Black Cap Tim Southee was getting a little too close and personal with a female passenger on a flight to Dubai.
Southee and Black Caps captain Dan Vettori have denied anything untoward happened.
Dominion Post
The Dominion Post says a convicted murderer and child-sex offender, who stalked his victims' family from jail, has been running a mail-order business from prison - to the disgust of the dead man's family.
A cyclist who was impaled by her bicycle handlebars in a road crash last week wants to reattach them to her bike and get back on the road as soon as possible.
The Press
Leading The Press, a six-year-old girl who was excited about being back at school shared stories of her holidays with classmates days before she and her mother died in a horrific head-on crash. The girl's younger sister was pulled from the wreckage by a motorist.
A passenger on a plane that sparked an emergency at Blenheim Airport when its landing gear failed has described the experience as nerveracking.
And the paper reports that Auckland District Law Society says a law passed for Canterbury's earthquake recovery is an unprecedented surrender of parliamentary power.
ODT
The Otago Daily Times says a heroic passing truck driver is being credited with saving the life of a girl after a road crash in which the girl's mother and sister died.
And psychology researcher Professor Harlene Hayne has become the first woman to be appointed vice-chancellor at the University of Otago.
