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NewsFebruary 2

1997: Rabbit-killing virus released

Ministry of Agriculture staff yesterday converged on four Cromwell farms after the discovery of the rabbit-killing RCD virus but are saying privately it will be impossible to eradicate.
1997: Rabbit-killing virus released
1997: Rabbit-killing virus released
NewsFebruary 2

1996: Danyon Loader swims into history

Dunedin's Danyon Loader felt like a greyhound chasing a lure when he won his second Olympic swimming gold medal at the Atlanta Games yesterday.
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1996: National, New Zealand First form coalition government

Winston Peters played the piper to perfection for eight long weeks and more. As his MMP tune drew to its long-awaited climax, the former cabinet minister who had bitterly rejected National and formed his own party proved again last night the political saw, "anything is possible in politics".
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1996: NZ Order of Merit announced

Prime Minister Jim Bolger yesterday announced further details of a new honours system which replaces the traditional British orders with New Zealand-based honours.
DunedinFebruary 2

1990: Cars overturned, sofa burnt, as students riot

About 1500 drunken students caused havoc in North Dunedin on Saturday night after they upturned cars, lit street fires and pelted police with bottles and bricks.
DunedinFebruary 2

1990: Massacre leaves nation in shock

A six-year-old child is dead, a policeman is missing, believed dead, and six other people were shot and wounded after an Aramoana man went on the rampage with a high-powered rifle last night.Early this morning police believed the gunman was still at large, but confined to an area between Te Ngaru and Spit Beach.
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1989: Chinese soldiers kill protesters in Tiananmen Square

Soldiers stormed Tiananmen Square yesterday and crushed a three-week student sit-in for democracy, shooting and beating demonstrators in clashes. A doctor estimated at least 500 people were killed.
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1989: Euphoria as Berlin Wall crumbles

Thousands of Germans from East and West embraced in laughter and tears after the East dramatically threw open the 28-year-old Berlin Wall.
1989: Euphoria as Berlin Wall crumbles
1989: Euphoria as Berlin Wall crumbles
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1989: Local body boundaries announced

The splitting of North Otago between the new Canterbury and Otago regions is confirmed in the final reorganisation schemes announced by the Local Government Commission.
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1986: Angry PM rushes from function amid protest

April 16: Angry Otago rural people rushed a car taking an equally annoyed Prime Minister, the Rt Hon D. R. Lange, away from a tense official function at the Invermay Agricultural Centre in Mosgiel yesterday.
NewsFebruary 2

1985: Advice on nuclear fire sought

April, 30 BONN: The Soviet Union yesterday sought West German and Swedish advice on how to fight a fire at a nuclear power plant and West German experts said the request indicated that an atomic reactor in the Ukraine was still burning.
1985: Advice on nuclear fire sought
1985: Advice on nuclear fire sought
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1987: Anger at sweeping closures of post offices

October 16: New Zealand Post yesterday announced that 57 post offices in Otago and Southland will close on February 5, 1988. Of those 28 are in the Dunedin postal district.
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1987: Triumph in first World Cup

June 22: If the inaugural World Cup rugby competition has done nothing else, it has restored the prestige of the game in New Zealand and returned the faith and interest of thousands of New Zealanders when so many of them had despaired about what was happening.
1987: Triumph in first World Cup
1987: Triumph in first World Cup
NewsFebruary 2

1987: NZ market caught in selling panic

October 20: Sharemarkets around the world have fallen out of bed in the past two trading days, New Zealand following the pattern yesterday by losing 154.68 points on the Barclays industrial index.
1987: NZ market caught in selling panic
1987: NZ market caught in selling panic
NewsFebruary 2

1997: Princess Diana dies in crash

PARIS: Princess Diana and her millionaire companion, Dodi Al Fayed, were killed in a car crash early yesterday while being chased through Paris by photographers on motorcycles.
1997: Princess Diana dies in crash
1997: Princess Diana dies in crash
NewsFebruary 2

1997: Floodwaters overwhelm Opuha dam; residents evacuated

Surging Canterbury floodwater tore away a third of the massive Opuha dam near Fairlie early yesterday, sending a violent wall of water towards the sea.
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1998: ECNZ split could reduce electricity prices

The Government yesterday announced its decision "in principle" to split state-owned electricity generator ECNZ in three.
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1998: Foul play feared after pair vanish

BLENHEIM: Two Marlborough couples fear their children have met with foul play after going missing without a trace in the Marlborough Sounds on New Year's Day.
1998: Foul play feared after pair vanish
1998: Foul play feared after pair vanish
NewsFebruary 2

1998: Otago wins NPC before 40,000 fans

Otago sport may never know another day, another occasion like this after its rugby team became the undisputed national champion with a resounding 49-20 win over Waikato at Carisbrook yesterday.
1998: Otago wins NPC before 40,000 fans
1998: Otago wins NPC before 40,000 fans
NewsFebruary 2

2000: Alexandra flood solution includes some demolitions

Half of Alexandra's main business area would be demolished in a proposed $23 million flood protection solution for the town.
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2000: Fiji Parliament stormed in coup

Armed men launched a dramatic coup in Fiji yesterday, storming Parliament and taking Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his cabinet hostage before declaring they had seized power on behalf of indigenous Fijians.
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2000: Panic as huge slip plunges on to road

Motorists ran in fear for their lives as thousands of tonnes of rock crashed over State Highway 6, near Queenstown, yesterday morning, a slip that could block the road for days.
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2002: DCC fields flurry of calls over leaky homes

More than 4600 Otago homes may be susceptible to "leaky building syndrome", which is predicted to cost hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs nationwide.
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2002: $5.02m plan for Uni Oval

Dunedin will have a new test cricket venue at the University Oval as part of a $5.02 million redevelopment announced yesterday.
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2002: Air-force help for snow-stranded flock

Four air force Iroquois helicopters will arrive in the Maniototo today to help farmers save an estimated 25,000 sheep and 1500 cattle that have been stranded by snow for more than a week.