The headlines: Motorcycle gang likely to be behind huge meth bust; Richie McCaw foils All Whites' clean sweep; Crash victim's birthday wish to be honoured at funeral.
New Zealand Herald
The New Zealand Herald reports a grieving father, whose oldest daughter and ex-wife were killed in an Otago car crash, wants to meet the man who saved his younger daughter.
Auckland Mayor Len Brown has backed down over the $3.4 million budget for the Maori Statutory Board after opposition from members of the public and some councillors.
Mr Brown is sending the budget to the full council for a likely cutback on Monday.
The Dominion Post
Leading The Dominion Post, an expert says Australia's Rebels Motorcycle Club is likely to to be the central power behind a huge methamphetamine operation busted by New Zealand police yesterday.
Expensive cars and motorbikes, guns, drugs and more than $120,000 in cash were seized in the bust.
Richie McCaw foiled a clean sweep for the All Whites at the Halberg Awards on Thursday night, with Sportsman of the Year the only major award the footballers missed out on.
The Press
The Press leads with the South Island's biggest iwi considering taking land claims to the High Court under controversial new coastal laws.
All Blacks captain Richie McCaw pipped New Zealand football captain Ryan Nelsen for the Halberg Sportsman of the Year title on Thursday night after leading the All Blacks to Tri-Nations and Bledisloe Cup successes in 2010.
And retiring to bed with a broken heart may be the stuff of romance novels but the Canterbury earthquake has shown the condition, otherwise known as stress cardiomyopathy, is very real.
ODT
Leading the Otago Daily Times, Rebecca Coulter, the six-year-old girl killed in an Otago car crash with her mother earlier this week, wanted a horse for her next birthday - and her father wants to honour that wish at her funeral.
And an ACC claimant is suing the police over what he claims was an unlawful and unreasonable search of his home in 2006, during an investigation of possible ACC fraud.
