In a newspaper article titled "Rabbit decision to be announced next week" published in "The Dominion" (New Zealand 26/6/1997)
it has been announced by the agricultural ministry that deputy
director-general Peter O'Hara will announce his decision next Wednesday (2nd July 1997)
on the failure or success of the application to import rabbit calicivirus (rabbit viral haemorrhagic disease) into New Zealand
as a biological control agent of the wild European rabbit in New Zealand.
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