Monday's papers: survey suggests most say parents have the right to smack their children, tax cuts take effect this week, and Wellington Phoenix's shock 2-1 win over A-league leaders Sydney FC.
NZ Herald
The paper leads with a poll showing an overwhelming majority support the rights of parents to smack their children. It says 16 months after the law was changed, 86% of those surveyed said a smack as part of parental discipline is acceptable. The New Zealand Herald reports police investigating the fatal stabbing of good samaritan Austin Hemmings say they're looking for a taxi driver thought to have driven the alleged killer away after the incident. And the New Zealand Herald says millionaire New Zealand financier Kirk Stephenson has died after falling under a high-speed train at a British station.
Dominion Post
The Dominion Post says tax cuts take effect this week, but questions whether the reductions of $12 to $28 a week will be enough to save Labour in the elections. Soccer makes the front page, with the paper reporting that Wellington Phoenix sat bolt upright in their coffin yesterday to score a shock 2-1 win over A-league leaders Sydney FC. And the paper has a photo of bikini-clad Annabel Dekker bracing the brisk air to ski down Turoa skifield as part of a sub-zero charity fundraiser.
The Press
Soaring power prices are ahead for South Islanders, according to the Press lead. The paper says prices will rise for at least another four or five years, until North Island transmission bottlenecks are cleared. The Press reports on a tragic day out in his father's truck for a nine-year-old boy, who died when the truck crashed into a bridge near Kaikoura.
And there is a large photo of a Pekingese called Mr Murdoch, whose google-eyed stare helped him win a top prize at the Kennel Club's national show in Christchurch on Sunday.
Otago Daily Times
Complaints by tourist airlines over how the Conservation Department allocated landing rights at Milford Sound leads the ODT. Among those to miss out is Wanaka-based Aspiring Air, which has been flying into Milford for forty years.
Dunedin's Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust has become the first New Zealand organisation to win a prestigious Birdlife International Conservation Achievement Award. And the paper says former Port Chalmers mayor Sir John Thorn has died at the age of 97.
