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The New Zealand Business Herald

5 January 1998, page A3

Future shock for police computer

by Sarah Catherall

The Millennium Bug has hit the law enforcement computer that stores the confidential files of hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders...

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United MP Peter Dunne, who has surveyed 150 firms, utilities and councils on their work transforming computer systems for the millennium, said the Wanganui glitch should warn everyone to prepare.

"Everyone seems to assume that problems will not happen until January 1 in the year 2000, but that's not the case," he said.

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-- Bill (billdale@lakesnet.net), March 15, 1998