Wednesday's headlines: Chef Martin Bosley in voluntary liquidation; Wellington Council supports $90 million Basin Reserve flyover; children found living in drug-lab house.
NZ Herald
The New Zealand Herald leads with the headline 'washer wipeout'. The paper says Auckland Council wants more power to penalise windscreen washers at intersections. Under an existing bylaw they can be banned and fined up to $20,000, but the council wants the power to issue spot fines.
Other stories include more analysis of the latest Census figures including New Zealand's divorce hotspot, the growth of religion in Auckland and plans to crackdown on unruly airline passengers.
Waikato Times
The Waikato Times reports on a homicide investigation in the Hamilton suburb of Chartwell. Emergency services told the paper they treated a man, 38, for significant injuries at a Winstone road property but he died at the scene.
The paper also names the man who made headlines after being recorded clubbing bobby calves to death in Chile, and says he is a former Waikato farmer.
Dominion Post
The Dominion Post leads with a picture of Wellington chef Martin Bosley who has gone into voluntary liquidation 13 years after opening his award winning restaurant.
He told the paper it was the hardest decision he's ever had to make and the worst day of his life.
In other news: Wellington Council has offered its support to the $90 million Basin Reserve flyover after more than a year of flip-flopping. In return for its support, the council wants a new pavilion and more pedestrian crossings.
The Press
The Press reports on conditions inside a drug-lab house in Linwood. Police officers who found two children living there told the paper the food the family was eating was in the same cupboard as the beakers and pots used to manufacture methamphetamine.
Also on the front page: pictures of emergency services rescuing passengers from a van which plunged into the Mataura river in Southland. One person was killed and nine others injured.
ODT
The Otago Daily Times says Chinese investors hope to open a $60 million international school in the city within three years. The paper says the developers still needed a site and resource consent before the project can proceed.
And the front page has a picture of a Tahitian born man jailed for defrauding fellow 7th-Day Adventists of nearly $900,000.
