Businessman Mike Pero says he feels like he is being persecuted for trying to help the Erebus crash victims' families travel to Antarctica for January's 30 year anniversary.

Concerns over Mike Pero's planned Erebus charter flight have forced the businessman to reconsider going ahead with the trip.

A hunter is fighting for his life in Waikato Hospital after being shot by another hunter south of Taupo last night.

The daughter of one of the Erebus disaster victims has criticised Mike Pero's charter flight to the crash site as in "poor taste".

Mike Pero says John Key gave him no negative feedback about his plan for a charter flight for families of Erebus victims, but the prime minister says details of the flight were not discussed.

Family and friends of the victims of the Erebus disaster will now have the chance to go to Antarctica thanks to businessman Mike Pero.

A swimmer who died during a cross-harbour swim was fit and well prepared, friends and family say.

Police say it is too early to say if the death of a cyclist whose body was found in Tauranga Harbour today was due to a hit-and-run.